My Son At NMMI
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Apologies, Pappymac.
I should've included the USCGA with my broadside on service academies. Coasties are all too frequently overlooked yet are stalwarts in the protection of our coastlines and sailing vessels.
Fnord
I should've included the USCGA with my broadside on service academies. Coasties are all too frequently overlooked yet are stalwarts in the protection of our coastlines and sailing vessels.
Fnord
One of the service academies would be terrific, if that's what your son wants. But from what I read here, this kid will do well where ever he chooses to go. You sort of take your inclination to be educated with you where you go. It's nice to have a well-known institution on your degree, but it's more important that you get what you need and want out of your experience, I think. This young guy has a great start and only needs to keep doing what he's doing, at whatever school is so fortunate to admit him.
Your son is an exceptional person, and that didn't happen by accident.
Congrats to him, and a healthy round of praise for your parenting. :clap:
Congrats to him, and a healthy round of praise for your parenting. :clap:
Another update since I started this thread three years ago. Hard to believe four years have passed since my son started at the New Mexico Military Institute. He is graduating on the 13th with honors and made it to Sargent Major of second squadron. He just got his appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point and will report on July 3rd! GO ARMY BEAT NAVY!
And congratulations on another milestone! Although Army beating Navy- hmmmmmmm....Not in lacrosse!
Congratulations to a proud father and also congratulations to your son for getting into West Point, may he have a fine career in the U.S. Army.
Wow, that's an incredible achievement!
Did anyone read those West Point novels when you were a kid? There were four, one for each year of the Academy.
Did anyone read those West Point novels when you were a kid? There were four, one for each year of the Academy.
While I can't agree about Army beating Navy I can agree on your Sons success. Doesn't that make you proud. Fine looking young man. I looked at his picture and thought of the day my Son 82nd Airborne jumped with the Old Timers in Normandy. As they marched thru St Mere Eglise they threw flowers, women ran and kissed them, all my pent up anger at how we were treated in the 60s melted away as I cried , Redemption thru my Son. You will live thru him and he will make you and the wife proud.
Congrats to your son on his wonderful achievements. I'm sure he'll do your family and the country proud.
One of the greatest blessings in life is to have a sense of career direction early in life. It's so much harder when you have to keep guessing and trying different pursuits. I was lucky on that score, probably because I knew there were so many things at which I had no competence. Your son has his feet firmly on the ground and a good plan for the future. Eventually, he will want to cultivate a parallel track for when he chooses to leave the military or retire, but he has plenty of time for that, and he probably already has a sense of where his other talents might lead him, inside or beyond his military career. My dad worried that I had too many and various hobbies as a student -- shortwave radio, photography, writing, drawing. He told me to focus on one. I chuckle when I look back -- every one of those interests has been an integral part of earning a living over the years, focussed mostly on writing and editing, but using photography and art in publications, and radio aboard a minesweeper as a radioman. It was like butchering a pig, nothing was wasted. Even some of the farther out fantasies have contributed, wanting to be a minister, a stand-up comic, a teacher, none of which was remotely fulfilled, but each of which gave me interests and a few skills that proved useful. Congratulations to your son, and good luck in his studies at West Point.
That's totally cool. Congratulations to you and the sun.
MSO's story is quite instructive as well. If you find yourself working in a cluster around an idea, that is your actual target (this correlates nicely to the concept of "the middle path").
MSO's story is quite instructive as well. If you find yourself working in a cluster around an idea, that is your actual target (this correlates nicely to the concept of "the middle path").
Wow, sorry I didn't see this post 3 yrs ago! I graduated from NMMI, class of 77'
Not a day goes by I don't think about it. Even got a tattoo on my forearm to remind me of it. Great school!!
Congrats to your son!
Not a day goes by I don't think about it. Even got a tattoo on my forearm to remind me of it. Great school!!
Congrats to your son!
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