[AnAmericanMother]

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

[Robe]

When I look upon the fields of these Military Academies ( I’ve visited them all except for the USAFMC) filled with the best of the youth this country can conger up.. I can’t help get a tear in my eye.....Guess I’m gettin soft in my old age

[billhilly]

An interesting fact with regard to the Citadel. General William C. Westmoreland, former Army Chief of Staff, and famous commander in Vietnam attended his plebe year at the Citadel because his grandfather did not want him going to a "yankee" academy. One year later, the generals father, and he, convinced his grandfather that other famous southern generals had attended West Point, so his grandad relented. The result was a second plebe year at the United States Military Academy at West Point.