On a Charleston campus etched with palmettos, amid yellow Moorish buildings, some 1,900 young men in oldfashioned, ball-buttoned, long-tailed military uniforms will this week pass in review before South Carolina's Governor Richard Jefferies. The Citadel, known also as the Military College of South Carolina, which vies with Virginia Military Institute for second rank (after Annapolis and West Point) among U.S. military academies, will be 100 years old.
For the occasion Governor Jefferies will enrich the school's lavish regimental colors with a new set of eight battle-streamers marking the participation of Citadel men in...
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