Posted on 03/05/2016 1:23:48 PM PST by Cecily
Pat Conroy’s family eased him from this life into the next by reading poems, playing country music and singing to him. “We did sing the Marine Corps Hymn,” his sister Kathy Harvey said. “It was the only way to send him out.”
This was an appropriate choice. The man whose Marine Corps father had so brutalized his childhood still maintained the utmost respect for the Marines. Marine Corps families, Conroy used to say, eat other families for breakfast.
The same dynamic held in Conroy’s relationship with The Citadel, the military college in Charleston whose savage traditions he fictionalized in “The Lords of Discipline.”
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A terrific author. The name, whether he desired it or not—melds the Marines and the F4 Phantom forever.
“he fictionalized in “The Lords of Discipline.”
good movie. I know some people in my hood’ who went to military school and it had an influence on them..
I read THE GREAT SANTINI in the early 80s. I think it was the character based on his father who said “Marine Corps families eat other families for breakfast.”
His books aren’t my style, but my wife loves them. She said “Prince of Tides” and the other one about SC (?) were some of the most powerful psychological books she had ever read.
? Beach Music was great...some great quotable lines
In the 1966 to 67 school year, Conroy attended St. James Cathedral School in Orlando, as did I at the same time. Conroy described that as the happiest year of his childhood because he learned to play basketball.
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