Dolores High School graduates Simon Condon and Brett Brunner gathered Tuesday at the Dolores Public Library to tell the children gathered there about living their dreams.
Both Condon and Brunner are living theirs.
Condon is attending the University of Southern California on a Navy ROTC scholarship and Brunner has one more year left at the Air Force Academy.
Condon told the students to dream big.
Dream as big as you can. If you want to be President of the United States, challenge me, maybe you will win, he said.
Condon told the group that he has wanted to be the president since he was young.
My kindergarten teacher told me to draw a picture of my house. I drew a picture of the White House, he said.
Condon shared video and his experience recently in a Navy training, during which he got to steer a naval destroyer, run the Navy SEAL team course and see some impressive weapons.
This one shoots a little over five miles, he said, holding up a shell casing that was taller than some of the students.
Of the 500 students that participated in the program, only four of the students completed the rigourous Navy Seal obstacle course, one of those was Condon.
It was hard, he told the kids.
Brunner wowed the children by showing them his parachute. He competes on a four-man competitive sky diving team at the Air Force Academy.
He has jumped about 450 times, he told the students.
Always set high goals, but if you dont attain them you have to respond well, he said.
