The Long Gray Line

Tomorrow, 860 young men and women will enter Michie Stadium at the United States Military Academy at West Point as cadets. They will leave the stadium as Second Lieutenants in the United States Army.

They will join the long gray line of graduates that stretches back all the way to 1802 and the founding of West Point when Thomas Jefferson was the President. General Norman Schwarzkopf will be one of the members of the class of 1956 who will be presenting the graduates their new bars.

My nephew will be one of them.

Never falter, never quit, Eric.