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Well , I’ll take a crack at an explanation......

1.If you think that there is no military connection to the Citadel drop by some time and
have a gaze at the bronze tablets beside the door to Summerall Chapel... it list all the
Cadets which gave their all for their country.
2. The rigors of the school provide the individual with a talent for “finding order in
chaos”
3. 98% of last falls graduating class are either, gainfully employed, in the military, or
pursuing graduate degrees. ( I challenge you to fine a better record outside of the military
academies)
4. As far as graduates from West Point ( Known to the Corps of Cadets as “ The High
School on the Hudson”... they look down on everyone who is not a grad.. so no big deal
there.
5. I damn sure where my son is at 11:00 p.m., he’s not going to be tanking beer at the
local pub
6. The Citadel is an organization which is dedicated to the Spiritual, Physical, Academic
as well as the Military aspects of young men (and now women also) Find that at your top
ten Party schools.
7. 40% of last years Graduating Class were commissioned as officers in the service of the
United States
8. And I damned proud that my son chose a road less traveled in a organization that can
trace its roots to before the American Revolution.....

There I think that about covers it .....

Robe

Dad never got his degree though.

By the time he got back (a little difficult since he was single and had no dependents) it was 1946, so he fast-talked the Dean of Emory Law School into letting him in without a bachelor's degree. (My dad could sell walk-in freezers to Eskimos in wholesale job lots.)

But he has always been complimentary of the Citadel. He was sort of a wild kid (his daddy died when he was only 10 and he was the baby in a family of all girls), and he said the Citadel began the growing-up process and WWII finished it up.

He also says that WWII was "a cinch" after the Citadel! (This from a guy who went in the second day at Anzio and fought his way up the Appennines . . . )

He is a great dad, BTW. :-D