Answering God's Call To Mission
Cross, Resurrection, And Ascension
First Lesson Sermons For Lent/Easter
On a warm and sunny early June day in 1943 John Francis Laboon, "Jake" to his friends, stood with his Naval Academy classmates on Worden Field; it was graduation day. These men were the class of 1944, but because of the war raging in both the Pacific and European theatres, and thus the need for its services in the fleet, the class was "accelerated" one year in its training. A rough and tumble young man from the steel town of Pittsburgh, Jake had come to the Academy in the summer of 1940.