Word: colonel
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...service, through the Phillips Brooks House (PBH), was a more prevalent aspect of campus life in his era. "[Phillips Brooks House] was a highly regarded undergraduate program," he says. Sawhill participated in the seemingly divergent activities of ROTC and PBH. But he says the offices of both Harvard cadet colonel and PBH president shared the same ultimate goal: doing service. And the entire community, he says, shared his desire to serve. "Harvard undergraduates in the 1940s were involved," he says...
...future Lieutenant Colonel Netanyahu--who completed his only full year at Harvard twenty-five years ago--was the only Israeli soldier to die in the 1976 raid on the Entebbe, Uganda airport, during which the Israeli army freed 100 Israeli hostages held by Palestinian sympathizers...
Netanyahu took a leave of absence from the army in June 1973, during which he enrolled in Harvard Summer School. He returned in time to fight in the Yom Kippur War. In 1975, a little more than a year before his death at Entebbe, he was promoted to Lieutenant Colonel...
...next day the colonel faced the Senate committee, armed with knowledge of his son's homosexuality, a fact that both Peck men agreed should be made public. His fingers laced tightly and wearing what Scott calls "his nervous face," the colonel testified, "My son Scott is a homosexual, and I don't think there's any place for him in the military." In a single breath, he added, "I love him as much as I do any of my sons. I respect him. I think he's a fine person. But he should not serve...
...shrewd photo-op tour of bunks in cramped naval vessels. In a week of testimony that included pleas to lift the ban on gay servicemen and -women and assertions by retired Army General Norman Schwarzkopf that openly gay soldiers would undermine morale, the emotional high point was Marine Colonel Fred Peck's surprise declaration that he would discourage his son Scott -- "a recruiter's dream" -- from joining the military "because my son is a homosexual." Many Senators seemed inclined toward a tricky "Don't ask, don't tell" compromise that would do away with the old policy of asking...