I agree with you. I have no doubt that a man of Westmoreland’s stature could claim he could get an appointment for a bright young man. And he would have been able to make it happen. Nor do I doubt that such a qualified student and JROTC leader could also get an appointment....especially since he was accepted to Yale in those days.
I think they offered help to Carson and he said he wanted to go a different direction.
The problem with the media is that it’s hard for us to prove things that have happened in our lives in the sense of irrefutable proof. The media could then write, “unproven assertion”, and it would make us look like liars.
I’ve had folks here on FR actually challenge the fact that I am a retired Army chaplain. I can think of no way to prove it to them without revealing way too much information in the cyber-world. So, I generally just ignore them.
Happened to have your post open in another window. Thought you might find one of my posts on this of interest.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3357453/posts?page=38#38