Chuck Berry

This past week in forum we got to hear from the father of an honors student and the CEO of Shoals Hospital, Mr. Ross Berry. Mr. Berry started off the talk by telling us the story of two kids that grew up on the same street and how one went on to be very successful while the other still works at a dead end job. The moral of the story was that it doesn’t matter where you come from or what is given to you that gets you ahead in life, it is the determination to do what you need to do to move up. The story is also completely true, with our successful pilot chuck turning out to be the Mr. Berry in front of us. He then went on to tell us about his personal mission statement and his motto. Both of these were really neat because he said he lived by these. He also encouraged us to make our own and I have been thinking about it. For my mission statement I really like the ARMY LDRSHIP values and I think I’ll keep those for a bit. And as for my motto I really liked his and think that it would be very useful. “Vera Verum Va Vera Causa” which he said roughly translates tok “Do the right thing, the right way, for the right reason”