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There were thrilling sights: the grey files of West Point cadets and the brave flutter of massed colors. There were grim moments too. When a regiment of marines, dressed in combat fatigues, passed in review, the crowds cheered, and when that ominous-looking colossus, the atomic cannon, rolled past, all voices were hushed. And there were old inaugural standbys: the brother rats from V.M.I., the plumed Richmond Blues, the paunchy Governor's Foot Guards of Connecticut in scarlet coats and shakos...
...issue in 1915-1916, when I was writing editorials for the CRIMSON, was whether or not Harvard should organize an R.O.T.C. regiment...
After having breakfast one day, at the Institute of 1770, with T.R., upon the invitation of my classmate. Archie Roosevelt, I became a firm adherent of the "Preparedness" school. Graham B. Blaine ball in an editorial campaign to get a Harvard Regiment, started. As I remember, we were at one time summoned to the house of President Lowell, who tried to dissuade us from this project. Later on, Mr. Lowell changed his mind and withdrew his objections. The episode impressed itself upon my mind, because it was my first experience with "freedom of the press...
Templer's father had started a collection of regimental trophies, flags, uniforms and weapons at Loughgall Manor, Armagh. Templer set up a regimental museum, restored to the regiment its original war trophy: Napoleon's eagle-headed standard, which an Irish rifleman had captured in the Peninsular...
JAMES W. CONNER, 36, Episcopalian; serving with the 31st Infantry Regiment when declared missing in action...