[1] Hodgson got involved in sports early on at West point, making the varsity football team his freshman year.

Tours on the West Coast and Washington, D. C. followed by graduation from the Command and General Staff School at Fort Leavenworth seemed to be preparing him for new opportunities.

Illness struck him in 1941 and, after several months in Fitzsimmons General Hospital, Hodgson was discharged because of arthritis, a disease which afflicted him since his West Point days.

With the outbreak of World War II, Hodgson was recalled to active duty as the Executive Officer of Fort Sam Houston, Texas, where he remained until August 1945.

Following the end of his military career, Hodgson retired to California and died at the Letterman Army Hospital in San Francisco at the age of 63.

While discussing Hodgson in December 1942, then General, Eisenhower stated, "The four years we spent in the same room more than a quarter of a century ago are still one of my most treasured memories."