Thanks, dancingpalmtrees.
Today’s ‘normal’ date is: Wed, November 26, 2014
Today’s U.N. Date is: Sunday, November 26, 12014 H.E. (Holocene/Human Era)
Much of my life has revolved around the ideals of service, duty, and honor embodied in the General´s West Point address, which I first read and found so inspiring as a cadet in both the Civil Air Patrol and Jr. ROTC. The text is available here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1068922/posts
That speech and the ideals it represents may be what got me kicked out of Annapolis, in fact. When I arrived at the Naval Academy, I expected the ideas I had been taught as a cadet to continue to the Brigade of Midshipmen and to the officer corps: Nobless Oblige, defend and support the weak, work together to serve the ideals that make our democracy great. But I found a very different reality there, and in questioning, earned the ire of both my upper classmen and several of my classmates to boot.
Contemplating the meaning of friendship, and the twilight of one´s life…
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Ranger Mayann 