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Book - Your Soldier, Your Army: A Parents’ Guide

Book - The West Point Candidate Book

Book - Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point

Book - Of Their Own Accord, Absolutely American, Memories and Traditions,

Article - Deep inside America’s Military Academies, What’s in store for a Cadet, Making his Point - The hard way

Article - What’s in store for a Cadet

Article - Making his Point The hard way

 

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Book - Your Soldier, Your Army: A Parents’ Guide

 

 

Your Soldier, Your Army: A Parents’ Guide was written by Vicki Cody, wife of GEN Richard Cody, Vice Chief of Staff, U.S. Army, and the mother of two Apache helicopter pilots with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). Mrs. Cody turns her own 30-year experience as the wife and mother of Soldiers into advice and consolation for other parents with deploying children. The book’s tone is warm and confidential with an honest mix of pride and tribulation, a tone that appeals to concerned parents. Mrs. Cody covers the whole gamut of deployments, from the preparation through the endurance to the homecoming, and includes a personal view into Army life and an explanation of Army terminology. Supplemental articles and exclamation points feature tips and facts about the Army.

http://www.ausa.org/webpub/DeptFamilyPrograms.nsf/byid/KCAT-6HCH3X

 

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Book – The West Point Candidate Book

Edition: Second Edition

Binding: Soft Cover

Publisher: Beacon Books, Mesa, Arizona

Date Published: 1990

ISBN: 0929311027

This is a "how to" book based on nearly 250 interviews with West Point professors, administrators, admissions officials, cadets and graduates; congressional staffers and panelists; and West Point parents from across the United States who gave advice on the typical problems parents encounter while their sons and daughters are candidates and West Point cadets. It is a complete guide that gives candidates everything they need to know to prepare for West Point, to gain admission to the academy and to survive after they get there. It is written in a clear, easy-to-read style by an author with years of experience teaching and writing for young adults. "

 

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Book - Absolutely American: Four Years at West Point

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Absolutely American : Four Years at West Point

from Houghton Mifflin Co

Price: $17.50

Customer Review:

As someone originally from one of the small American towns that supplies West Point with candidates (Winterset, Iowa) but who now lives in the artistic community of Chicago, I read this book with personal and nationalistic interest. Most Americans get the news about the war and our military without... more info

 

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Book - Of  Their Own Accord

    Of Their Own Accord

           A Lieutenant's One Year Journey in Vietnam with An Elite Ranger Unit

          Based on a True Story by Gary E. Dolan

http://oftheirownaccord.com/

312 pages; Publication Date: January 2005

Price: Hardcover: $24.95

Bulk Orders Contact Midpoint National at

(800-497-0037)

The Writers Collective

ISBN: 1-59411-026-3        LCCN: 2003110381

   Contact Author: gdolan@optonline.net

 

Book - Memories and Traditions – The Real West Point Story

These are the real stories of the men and women who have attended the oldest Military Academy in the United States. In their own words, hundreds of graduates have related their memories, superstitions, pranks, academic challenges, and tributes.

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Article - Deep Inside America's Military Academies July/August 1999 Issue

 

 

 

            http://www.taemag.com/issues/issueID.132/toc.asp

 

 

Article - What’s in store for a Cadet

Cadets-to-be get just a hint of what’s in store at West Point

            By Harry Levins, Military Matters, St Louis Post-Dispatch

 

Article - Making his Point The hard way

Class of 2007 Nolan Ryan DH

            By WAYNE COFFEY, DAILY NEWS SPORTS WRITER