Thanks for the note.

Harmon squeezed a lot of mileage out of that “losing your head” story – he started telling it in 1950 and never stopped. But never was it more appropriate than in the wake of the Panty Raid!

Thanks for the reference on the motto as well.

Essayons!

Randy

On behalf of the Alumni Association, thank you for authoring this incredible work! You make Norwich Alumni proud! We’re all looking forward to hearing more about “Norwich Matters” in January!

Essayons!

Alexis Presti-Simpson
Pres, NU Alumni Association

Great work!

Norwich did relocate to Connecticut briefly in 1825, but when the town of Middleton refused to grand the land title, Alden Partridge marched everyone back to Norwich, Vermont. The land in Middleton eventually went to Wesleyan University.

*Norwich, Connecticut was incorporated in the late 1600s.

Thanks for stopping by. – Randy

What a strange time that was. In hindsight, for a new president looking over the landscape, this decision really was a no-brainer. Turns out is was a wise decision despite the reservations of many. Kinda wish I saved myself 4 years worth of bus trips but hey, it built character. VC was the kind of place that could grow on you as it did for me.

I remember you fielding questions from the Corps in the auditorium and some of the heated questions about the decision. How about offering your insight of that time and how you felt in your unique position when hearing complaints from Corps members? I’d be intrigued to read about it.

Thanks again for the post.

I looked up to him as ‘the greatest’ soldier I had ever met (and apparently I was right).

He seemed bored with this assignment and was eager to get back to Vietnam.

I can not explain how thrilled I was to finally find something about him. I had searched his name from the time I got on the internet.

During rest halts, they joke and smoke like the rest of us, or water the dogs on the side of the road. On the move, they are fierce, pissed off, and willing to shoot anything that gets in our way.

Aside from that, when I see them hump 100 pounds of gear and heavy weapons up the side of a mountain, let them be 11Bs.

Are there women who can? Sure. Let them in I say. What about women dying in combat? It hurt me to see her go just as bad as the one next to her.

We see the news today that there are no more combat troops in Iraq, and women are not in combat in Afghanistan. In Iraq they man guns, turrets, towers, and gates. In Afghanistan, I saw several on gate duty. Outside the gate. They are the first to take a car bomb and the last to say they don’t want to stand the post.

They are soldiers. Deal with it. Seperate quarters is a must, and that is the next challenge for the military which they are not taking into account in the DADT repeal. We have essentially when from two groups willing to engage in sex to three. Doesn’t that mean seperate quarters? I think the studies ignore that fact. Do I oppose it? No. They are already there and dying. Fact.

CJP

CNN’s home page has a “Quick Vote” which is usually responded to by 100,000+ people (you only need 500 or so to make it statistically significant if you have a random sample — so 100,000+ just confirms the numbers more.)

For example, today’s Quick Vote:
Do you think the pace of hiring is beginning to pick up?

No 51%
Yes 49%

Rather benign. But the true feelings of the folks becomes clear with sharper questions like (I made this up) “Do you think that every felony conviction should result in the execution of the convicted?”

I can almost guarantee that the distribution of answers to that question would be

No 92%
Yes 8%

It tells me that no matter how absurd a question may be (at least to 92% of us), there will be 8% who disagree (e.g. “Would you like to cut a finger off to see how it feels?” Yes 8%)

So, like 5% unemployment is “full employment”, 92% agreement is “total agreement.”

Don’t be concerned with the 8% unless they show up with guns (which probably has a 92% probability, if they show up.)