Class of: 1969
\nBrick: yes<\/p>\n
I graduated from Stetson in June 1969, at the height of the Vietnam War. I had won a national competition to intern with a US cabinet member, but instead spent the summer at Ft. Benning, Georgia, making up the first two years of ROTC. I attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and did the third and fourth years of ROTC there. In July 1971, after training at Ft. Riley, Kansas, I was commissioned as an army officer. I proposed that I use my graduate training by teaching at West Point. I was turned down immediately because I was not a career officer. (Ironically, I was later made a senior professor at West Point as a civilian.) I was not called to duty until 1974, when I attended the Signal Corps officers school at Ft. Gordon, South Carolina. The military was demobilizing at that time, so I was sent home. In sum, my service was short and not heroic. Nevertheless, I am proud to be associated with those who made much greater sacrifices for their country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":3393,"template":"","vietnam_era_alum":[25],"class_list":["post-2828","vietnam_alumni","type-vietnam_alumni","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","vietnam_era_alum-alumni"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/vietnam-memorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vietnam_alumni\/2828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/vietnam-memorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vietnam_alumni"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/vietnam-memorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vietnam_alumni"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/vietnam-memorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/vietnam-memorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"vietnam_era_alum","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.stetson.edu\/vietnam-memorial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vietnam_era_alum?post=2828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}