JOSEPH HOUNCHELL OF Cornwall, center, at a Statehouse ceremony last spring stands with Sen. Patrick Leahy, to his immediate left, and Rep. Peter Welch, right, as well as his parents, Eric and Julie. At the time a senior at Middlebury Union High School, Hounchell was one of 24 young Vermonters to be nominated by members of the Vermont Congressional Delegation to the U.S. Service Academies’ class of 2019.Photo credit Office of Sen. Patrick Leahy