Retirement and Family
From 1960 to 1965 Bryan served as the first president of the Nassau Community College in Long Island, New York.
Two of Bryan's sons, Blackshear Jr. and James Edward, served in the U.S. Army. Blackshear M. Bryan, Jr. or "Morrie" was born in 1929 at West Point during his father's tenure as assistant football coach. He attended the Academy, graduating with the class of 1954. He accepted a commission with the Air Force, then transferred to the U.S. Army in 1963. Serving in Vietnam he was cited twice for heroism during his tour. On September 22, 1967, as he was rounding out his tour in Vietnam, Major Morrie Bryan was killed in a crash of his U-21A during a training mission as he attempted to avoid trespassers on the runway.
Bryan's son, James Edward "Jamie" Bryan, also died in a military aircraft accident. On September 14, 1977, at 23:48 hours, Jamie was coordinating his unit's operations from aboard an Air Force Boeing EC-135K command and control aircraft that had just taken off from Kirtland Air Force Base, near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Shortly after takeoff, the aircraft banked right and crashed into a mountain peak in the Manzano Mountain range, killing all 20 military crew members aboard. (Investigators said that fatigue may have played a part in the accident.) Major Bryan had served two combat tours in Vietnam. http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=60706655&rand=333
Blackshear M. Bryan died March 2, 1977 in a Silver Spring, Maryland nursing home after a long illness and was buried at the West Point Cemetery.
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