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<p><em>Michael David Miller</em> was born March 6, 1940 in Chicago, IL to Arthur and Alymer Miller. His father owned a commercial construction company that built schools, churches, warehouses and large-scale projects. They relocated to Oklahoma, where Mike attended Will Rogers High School, one of the top-rated schools in the U.S. Mike distinguished himself as the only student in a class of 810 to be elected class president three consecutive years. </p>
<p>For two years Mike studied civil engineering at Oklahoma State University. A member of Sigma Chi fraternity, he was elected president of his pledge class. He later received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point, graduating in 1964 with airborne and Ranger designations. </p>
<p>Mike’s first military assignment was with Field Artillery, defending the Panama Canal. He later became the commanding officer of Battery C, 4th Missile Battalion, a Hawk missile battery at Fort Amador, Panama. He was subsequently deployed to Vietnam with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and continued advanced military construction education at Fort Belvoir, VA.</p>
<p>In Vietnam, Mike assumed command positions with Task Force Builder, a special construction management program for rural pacification under the 46th Engineer Battalion in Rach Kien, Long An Province, South Vietnam. There, he led efforts to build schools, housing, marketplaces, medical and maternity clinics, roads, and bridge throughout the MeKong River Delta. Surrounded by constant danger and sustained casualties, Mike was most proud of bringing every one of his men home alive.</p>
<p>Classmate Bob McCoy said: “A word about Mike, I will say that he has often told me that our Ranger School training paid him huge dividends in Vietnam. He claims that it saved his life and the life of his men countless times.” </p>
<p>Mike’s work was featured in a New York Times article, the book A Terrible Beauty, and a later edition of Kill Zone, part of U.S. military history. </p>
<p>Reflecting on his survival, Mike credited his training at West Point and God, saying, “I’m good, but I’m not that good!”</p>
<p>Following Vietnam, Mike served as an instructor at Fort Sill, OK, teaching demolition, booby traps, ambushes (for which he authored a military guidebook), engineering, and crater analysis, techniques he developed in combat. Mike resigned from the Army in 1969.</p>
<p>For his valor and service, Mike was awarded: Legion of Merit (reportedly the first captain to receive it), three Bronze Stars, all with “V” device, the South Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, the Vietnamese Civil Affairs Honor Medal, the Army Commendation Service Medal, the Joint Services Commendation Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, and the Vietnam Campaign Medal.</p>
<p>In 1973, Mike earned his MBA from Harvard University and co-founded a business with West Point classmate Jack Price, who was at MIT. The business was featured in <em>Newsweek </em>magazine. </p>
<p>From 1969 to 1972, Mike managed major construction projects for Dole Industries in Honduras, building houses, roads, irrigation systems, 300 bridges, a 285-mile railroad, and commercial buildings.</p>
<p>From 1973 to 1976, Mike served as vice president of land development for Sea Pines Corporation, overseeing $45 million in land development for a 3,000-acre Puerto Rican resort, including subdivision design of 10,000 homes, infrastructure, a golf course, and a 800-boat marina with harbor.</p>
<p>Mike was the first American pioneer in developing Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Mike owned and managed Temeco Contracting, building 10-story commercial buildings and sewer infrastructures. </p>
<p>Between 1979 to 1982, Mike managed the $100 million construction of a $1.5 billion aluminum ore processing plant for Alusuisse in Venezuela. He later helped develop three private prisons in Oklahoma and became a real estate developer in Orlando, FL, developing 10 residential subdivisions. </p>
<p>After contracting cancer from Agent Orange exposure during the Vietnam War, Mike pursued holistic health studies, graduating from an herbal academy. In 1989 he founded Natural Heritage Enterprises, which is oldest Essiac tea company in the United States. </p>
<p>A military historian, author, business leader, developer, metaphysician and American patriot, Mike spent his remaining years intellectually engaged. Mike authored more than 25 books on meditation, metaphysics, leadership, war, economics and health. In his later years Mike learned how to self-publish his books on Amazon. Mike loved to build and retreated to his “hobby” workshops at his mountain ranch in Colorado and to his Michigan home. He founded a nonprofit to provide scholarships for students and assistance for those in need. </p>
<p>Mike embodied the principle of “service over self.” He was generous, courageous, and unwavering in his loyalty to God and country. The most important part of Mike’s daily life was his daily meditation with God.</p>
<p>Michael David Miller served his country with steadfast devotion to the principals of the United States Military Academy: Duty, Honor, Country.</p>
<p>“And when our work is done, Our course on earth is run, May it be said: ‘Well done. Be thou at peace.’”</p>
<p>Mike is survived by his beloved wife, Debra Warner Miller.</p>
<p>“In Debra, I have found the love I had been searching for. I now find myself surrounded by love and thank God each day for Debra and her children. In the closing years of my life, I am loved by a wonderful wife and our children and grandchildren. I have a daily connection to God. It just doesn’t get any better than this.” — Michael David Miller </p>
<p><em>— Debra S. Warner Miller</em></p>
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