Shammond Williams: A man forged by FUMA

Posted Jul 7, 2009
Shammond Williams supplied Fork Union Military Academy with the best promotional material that the school could ever wish for during his acceptance speech into its Sports Hall of Fame. FUMA could have hired a Hollywood producer and script writer to come in, paid Cuba Gooding Jr. the big bucks to portray a former athlete and still couldn’t have approached the gift that Williams gave his alma mater. (Charlottesville Daily Progress)

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