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Keyser Söze

On 11/7/15 11:51 AM, wrote:
On Sat, 7 Nov 2015 09:28:07 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:

In his defense, it was 50 years ago. But still, if it was General
Westmoreland who personally offered the "scholarship" as described in
Carson's book, you would think he'd remember it. Instead, he now refers
to a "group" of people and can't remember who they were.

My guess is he was addressing a group of gifted people of color,
saying "you too can go to West Point" and Carson remembers it a bit
more fondly than it may have actually been. The academies are for
people looking at a career in the military so I can see how it would
be easy to blow it off if you did not want to go that way. I doubt
Harry would take that seriously either but 50 years later he might
remember that it was an option.

I was mildly interested in attending the Coast Guard Academy during my
junior year of high school, but the interest "passed." No political
string-pulling was necessary.