West Point grad’s charity provides college grants to Gold Star families

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West Point grad’s charity provides college grants to Gold Star families
By Meghann Myers
Jul 12, 08:59 AM
David Kim, a West Point graduate, co-founded the Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation, a nonprofit that provides scholarships and educational counseling to military children who lost a parent in the line of duty. He is Military Times' 2022 Veteran of the Year. (Weston Scott/Staff)

David Kim was a year out of West Point when he deployed to Panama in 1989. On the first night of Operation Just Cause, just a few days before Christmas, a member of his battalion was shot and killed.

A few years later he was out of the Army and on his way to Harvard Business School, but that experience would go on to color the rest of his life.

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