Graduation Day for Cadet ‘Class of 9/11’
From Times Wire Reports
U.S. Military Academy cadets who came to West Point weeks before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks were told at their graduation ceremony that they were a special group forged by historic events.
Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called the class “one of the few since the early days of the Vietnam War who came to West Point in peacetime saw the nation transition to war and chose to stay.”
The class of 2005 is nicknamed the “Class of 9/11” and has 911 graduates.
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