Just a quick question for those Brothers and Sisters of Kappa Kappa Psi and Tau Beta Sigma; how much do you travel in a year? Not just to other chapters, but in general, to other places? Sometimes the discoveries made in traveling to a different place can really change your perspective on things in the world. I have had done a great share of travelling in my lifetime and some of the most enlightening travels of mine have occurred during my time with Kappa Kappa Psi.

One of the first great travels that I was apart of was travelling to Stillwater Station and seeing the Shrine for the first time. I was a PM at the tome and to be able to see where it all began and where everything came from is one of the most humbling feelings ever. Here you are at the very start of the fraternity that you have become a part of.  You are standing on what was once was the spot for Boh’s podium. 

I have done so much travelling in my lifetime and some of my favorite places to go to are historic places such as battlefields.  When you go to these kind of places, this certain humbling feeling takes over and you wonder just what really happened at these places and just what it meant to be there at that certain time.  The greatest example of this for me was when I visited the Gettysburg Civil War  Battlefield.  Here I was standing out on Little Round Top, a small hill that almost 10,000 men were killed upon, and looking out to this large empty field a mile and a half wide that had over 50,000 casualties; the greatest loss of life at any Civil War battlefield.  I had almost no words to describe the feeling that had taken over me; to even realize that you were staring at what was essentially a giant graveyard was mindblowing. 

While visiting other chapters and visiting Stillwater isn’t as violent or bloody as Civil War battlefields, it still gives you a humbling feeling to see that the one thing that started what you are a part of is now staring right at you in the face.  Recently, myself, the other members of Lambda and our PMs visited Stillwater Station and the Shrine, but this time I was now a member seeing it from a different perspective.  It was now all clear to me that these PMs are having the same experiences and feelings that I once had when I saw the Shrine for the first time.  Whether you are a PM, member, alumni, or sponsor, this same humbling feeling is felt by everyone.  I think that everyone should have this feeling at some point in their life.  With this, people can finally begin to realize how important it is to remember how everything began.