I have a question:
When did General Westmoreland die? What year?
When was Ben Carson in the ROTC?
What year was it that his first book came out and he described his meeting that took place with Westmoreland?
When did his second book come out when he again said he met with Westmoreland?
And what was his main goal for saying this stuff? Was it because he was raised in Detroit and achieved what he said he did, or is there another reason for him saying this?
>> When did General Westmoreland die? What year? <<
Dunno. But he was U.S. MACV CINC in Vietnam during 1967-68, and I can testify personally that he was very much alive then — because I was in Saigon during those years, and I saw him up close maybe half-a-dozen times.
>> When was Ben Carson in the ROTC? <<
The stories yesterday say Carson graduated from high school in 1969. That would be shortly after General Westmoreland came back stateside to serve as the Army’s Chief of Staff.
Anyway, I think it’s a total certainty that the Army’s Chief of Staff could get a kid like Carson into West Point almost instantly — for example, merely by whispering a few words into the ear of his nearest aide-de-camp.
>> what was his main goal for saying this stuff? <<
From the context of Carson’s discussing his choice of Yale over West Point, it seems to me that Carson probably was emphasizing his desire to go into medicine, as opposed to having an Army career.