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September 3, email, West Point

“Pro deo et patria,” your motto, for God and Country.  Very honorable, my brother and sister officers.  I admire those who adhere to the creed, as Jesus himself did.  I earnestly entreat you, as fellow officers sworn to defend the Constitution, and on behalf of West Point, to soothe my soul by telling me that this essay is mistaken:

[3/7 Cavalry, tragedy and travesty]

Should you fail to make fair reply by the time my book is published, I shall include this letter in it as a permanent mark of disgrace on West Point Military Academy and the Army Chaplain Corps.  I am shocked that the same school that bred the likes of Lee and Grant could have stood watch while the Constitution was subverted.

A Congressional Investigation is pending, my word as a true officer on it.  Please help me to get the word to the nation that not all officers collaborated in the cover-up!  Please stand up for yourselves!

On May 14 I met and delivered the essay you’ve read to a man who wore chaplain’s brass and colonel’s rank.  He bore the name Dennington.  He was special forces and wore a Combat Infantry Badge.  He acknowledged the truth of it and urged me to betray my oath by hiding it from the public.  Find out if he was truly one of yours, for he will stand before Congress, and I suspect he was from Special Forces Command to quell questions at Ft. Stewart, Georgia, the home of the 3rd Infantry Division and the 3/7 Cavalry Regiment.

Why my suspicions about Colonel Dennington?  He had no bible in his office.  He only had three books:  One was Starship Troopers by Heinlen, one was about zen and the warrior, and one was On Killing.  Curiously, he had no bible on hand, he thought it strange that soldiers were hesitant to kill, and he didn’t know about the pocket-sized bibles that they used to give out when I was in the First Cavalry Division.  I thought all this strange.  Stranger still was his response to my charge that the Army was operating outside Constitutional parameters.  “Don’t worry,” he said, “the Constitution is safe, because I have it right here.”  Then he extracted a blue-print Constitution from his pocket.  That was a nice bit of PSYOPS, and some officer deserves credit for researching that bit of theatre (Sam Ervin did it in the Watergate Hearings).

Comments, my fellow officers of the Army of the United States of America?  I’m waiting for your answer, and so is the history book I’m writing for the investigators.  This letter is a chapter.  I will write another when I receive your reply – or when I don’t.

Captain Eric May, Commander, Ghost Troop, 3/7 Cavalry

 

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