When I was a sixth-grade cadet at one of the nation’s premier military academies (S.C.M.A.), there was a cadet in my class named Mr. Stein. In military school last names are who you are; few of us knew, or cared to know, first names. I was one of few black cadets in the entire academy, and the only one in both my company and class.
In my class, I had one…
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