'I Hope I've Done the Lieutenant Proud'

He is former editor of National Geographic magazine and chairman of the board of trustees of the National Geographic Society and its Education Foundation. Gilbert Grosvenor retired as the Society's president in June 1996, the fifth generation of his family to serve in that position. He was a soldier in the United States Army from 1954 to 1956, and here's what that service meant to him.

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