The Army/Navy game

[outhereincali]

The fb they play isn't exciting. Rarely do both teams have a winning record in the same year.

But college fb used to be about tradition and the Army/Navy game has it in spades. It's a moving site to watch the brigade of midshipmen and the long gray line march into the stadium.

This is the highest compliment I can give to the players. Very few if any are good enough to play for Texas. But you have to have Ivy League caliber grades to get into the service academies and almost all of them are good enough to get into a school like Texas on their own.

Go army

 

[clob94]

Did you know that on June 6, 1944, Dwight D Eisenhower's son, John Eisenhower- graduated from West Point?

What are the odds?

 

[freeper]

Did you know that on June 6, 1944, Dwight D Eisenhower's son, John Eisenhower- graduated from West Point?

What are the odds?

John had a pretty tough row to hoe afterwards too. Not easy graduating without pops being there because he happens to be the Supreme Commander overseeing the most complex military operation of WWII, on the most momentous day of the Western European Campaign. I mean how do you even begin to measure up.

Lately I've just started reading "An Army at Dawn", book one of Rick Atkinson's excellent trilogy on the US Army in Europe during WWII. It's a very different Ike in those early pages, but wow does he grow and learn fast. Having to deal with French was a bigger pain than fighting the Germans. If any of y'all have a taste for World War II history, and you haven't read Atkinson's work, give it a try. He is also an excellent lecturer. Here's a YouTube video of his discussing the book.

 

[Oldmanastro]

John had a pretty tough row to hoe afterwards too. Not easy graduating without pops being there because he happens to be the Supreme Commander overseeing the most complex military operation of WWII, on the most momentous day of the Western European Campaign. I mean how do you even begin to measure up.

Lately I've just started reading "An Army at Dawn", book one of Rick Atkinson's excellent trilogy on the US Army in Europe during WWII. It's a very different Ike in those early pages, but wow does he grow and learn fast. Having to deal with French was a bigger pain than fighting the Germans. If any of y'all have a taste for World War II history, and you haven't read Atkinson's work, give it a try. He is also an excellent lecturer. Here's a YouTube video of his discussing the book.

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That’s a sharp dude. I enjoyed that, thanks for sharing. May ask for that book for Christmas.