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Finding spirit of Long Gray Line PDF Print E-mail
Monday, October 29, 2007
Huntsville Times

West Point visitopens my eyesand my mind

I thought I knew all about West Point. I had visited the school's table at my school during college day, discussed some academic requirements at an academy day with U.S. Rep. Bud Cramer and have had many discussions with my dad, a 1987 graduate, but I had no real concept of what it meant to be a cadet. I got a better feel of that when I walked the grounds of West Point and stood in front of the scripted honor code: "A cadet will not lie, cheat or steal, or tolerate those who do."

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MAY 20th, 1873! Auspicious day! From the deck of the little ferry-boat that steamed its way across from Garrison's on that eventful afternoon I viewed the hills about West Point, her stone structures perched thereon, thus rising still higher, as if providing access to the very pinnacle of fame, and shuddered. With my mind full of the horrors of the treatment of all former cadets of color, and the dread of inevitable ostracism, I approached tremblingly yet confidently.

First African American graduate,

Henry O. Flipper, USMA 187
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