

His parents have divorced since, and Rally has seen his father only once in the last 10 years. His father kicked him out shortly after he returned home and never has forgiven him for leaving the military academy. Every Sunday the family went to church all together. ''As I look at it now I just wasn`t prepared,'' he says.

He lasted a month in the academy before he dropped out, headed home and enrolled in a technical college near Leesburg. Vice president of the senior class, president of the Latin Club and all-round model kid, he received an appointment to the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

He had a midnight curfew on his two dates in high school to the junior and senior proms. THE SECOND of five sons, Rally was raised in a household in which smoking and beer drinking were forbidden.
