On December 1, 1993, a double murder and suicide rocked the U.S. Navy and destroyed forever the worlds of three families . . .

 

One of those killed was Ensign Kerryn L. O'Neill, an honors graduate and track star at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

I Have Finished the Race is her father's inspiring story of his journey from shock and anger to profound and extended grief and of his emergence into a world of acceptance and renewed faith.

"Alton Grizzard, the acclaimed Navy quarterback who set team career records for total offense from 1987 to 1990, and Kerry O'Neill, a 1993 Naval Academy graduate who set records in women's track, were shot to death by a fellow Academy graduate at a California naval base early yesterday..." 

December 2, 1993 -- The New York Times 

 

"The heart can be an enemy of promise, undoing even the most disciplined of lives -- as the élite community of sailors based in Coronado, California, found out last week."

December 13, 1993 -- Time 

 

"Rear Admiral Thomas C. Lynch, the superintendent of the Academy, described the brilliant and beautiful O’Neill as ‘the darling of the brigade.’"

August 29, 1994 -- Sports Illustrated 

I HAVE FINISHED THE RACE

THE STORY OF AN OFFICER AND A LADY

AND HER FATHER'S ATTEMPT TO DEAL WITH HER TRAGIC DEATH

by

Edmund J. O'Neill, D.Ed.

ISBN 0-9677292-0-3
© Copyright / February 2000
$9.95 / Trade Paperback / Non-fiction / 100 pages / incl photos
AZTexts Publishing, Inc. / Phoenix, Arizona
Edited by Paul M. Howey
Cover Design by Michael Hagelberg
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