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The Big Steel 1: End of the Journey
Book Senior year. This book was the most difficult to write, not for a lack of material but because there was so much. And now that women are welcome in the Corps there is even more material. There's more to write more about someday but we’ll halt for now with this book. But it’s enough to say that none of us who climbed into that meat grinder on the first day came out the same afterward. The fact that we survived at all says more about the place itself than it does about us. It transformed us completely and profoundly while creating entirely new creatures in the process. In short, we didn’t survive because we were so strong when we got there. We survived because the place made us strong after we got there.
112 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 26, 2021
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June 24, 2021
A Citadel grad reminisces
This final chapter of four years at El Cid brought back many memories of this once Senior Private although some were heard about and not experienced personally. George captures the true camaraderie between men with shared moments of youth, bravery, risks, and rewards.
Secrets untold are not Honor Code violations so it allows cadets to marry and father children while looking to the future of graduation, wearing the ring, and contributing to society in their own way. Although this choice is made by only a few brave souls, it takes the loyalty of your classmates to make it happen and makes that special bond among brothers even more unique.
The ending does not surprise me or even bother me as being unrealistic, as even after 41 years removed from from the corps of cadets, Duty, God, Country still drive my thoughts and has led me to a few encounters where I surprised myself by my determination to act where others didn't.
Thank you sir for writing with such memory, clarity, and humor!
This final chapter of four years at El Cid brought back many memories of this once Senior Private although some were heard about and not experienced personally. George captures the true camaraderie between men with shared moments of youth, bravery, risks, and rewards.
Secrets untold are not Honor Code violations so it allows cadets to marry and father children while looking to the future of graduation, wearing the ring, and contributing to society in their own way. Although this choice is made by only a few brave souls, it takes the loyalty of your classmates to make it happen and makes that special bond among brothers even more unique.
The ending does not surprise me or even bother me as being unrealistic, as even after 41 years removed from from the corps of cadets, Duty, God, Country still drive my thoughts and has led me to a few encounters where I surprised myself by my determination to act where others didn't.
Thank you sir for writing with such memory, clarity, and humor!
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