Jordan Fogler, 37

Like a lot of young people at the time, Jordan Fogler decided to attend one of the country’s military service academies after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. 

He was a sophomore in high school when terrorists flew jet liners into the twin towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. “For me,” he says, “that was like a catalyst.”

That eventually led Fogler to the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, the same place his father, Bill, graduated. "I worked hard in high school and ended up getting in,” he says. “And the rest is history.”