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...international banker and ex-Governor's aide. First Sergeant Terry Horton, 47, retired from the Army three years ago. Currently, instead of guarding the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier or traveling with the Army drill team, he teaches the 160 boys and girls enrolled in Chamblee's Junior ROTC. "I have a great rapport with the kids," he says. "They respect me, and I respect them." And, he adds, "there is not a day that goes by when I do not feel blessed. I would not change this job for anything else...
Police detective Brian Braswell of Petersburg, Va., thinks he's "three-quarters" prepared for the next Columbine. Last month, the local high school was the stage for a hostage drill complete with blaring fire alarms, 60 kids from Junior ROTC playing the wounded and scared, and an officer portraying a revenge-seeking killer, firing blanks from a shotgun. Braswell's team of officers had to push through waves of fleeing, panicked students and step over wounded children tugging at their pant legs crying "Help me!" Says Braswell: "From Columbine, we've learned that you have no choice...
Smith, who championed bringing ROTC back to campus and focusing the council on student services as a council member last year, decided not to run for re-election out of frustration with what he calls the council's ineptitude...
...pleased to see that The Crimson is offering coverage to the Harvard students who take part--and indeed, take an active leadership role--in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) program (News, March 20). However, I believe your article was misleading, in that it suggested that this is the first time that Harvard students have assumed such prominent leadership positions...
...This writer is a fourth-year cadet with the Air Force ROTC...