|
In any other college environment, you'd be right that it's a petty attack. However, the service academies are different, and they'll be the first to admit it. The placement within a class is still viewed as an important indicator of how effective a leader the individual will be, and it's mentioned quite often with historical figures. Lee and McCarthur - top of their classes; Patton and Grant - bottom.
If he wasn't popular and hard working among men being trained in leadership (and make no mistake, that's what all 4 service academies do), what does that tell you? It speaks volumes to me, and I'm not a graduate of any of them.
__________________
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - B. Franklin
"There ought to be limits to freedom." - George W. Bush
"We have met the enemy and he is us." - Pogo
|