Class of ‘70, VMI

From the VMI Department of Communications:

LEXINGTON, Va., April 18, 2007 – A memorial service honoring victims of the tragic events at Virginia Tech earlier this week is scheduled for 7:45 p.m. Thursday (April 19) in Jackson Memorial Hall. The service is for cadets, faculty and staff members and their families. VMI Chaplain Colonel James Park will conduct the service.

Also, the weekly parade by the Corps of Cadets that is scheduled for 4:35 p.m. Friday will include a moment of silence for the students and faculty members at Virginia Tech who died.

In the next month or so, I will be doing some changes to our web site — mostly cosmetic and smoothing out the operation behind the scenes. If there are any enhancements or changes that any of you would like to see, please drop me an email to webmaster@vmi70.org and I’ll see what I can do.

Also, any and all of you are welcome to post articles and links, comment on posts, add pictures and the like (that’s why you all register). I know that posting pictures is not the easiest thing in the world, but I am trying to make it better this go around. If you are having trouble posting or commenting, or are not comfortable with it, send it to me and I’ll enter it for you.

Chips

U.S. Senator John McCain’s presidential campaign today (4 Apr) announced that John McCain, during the month of April, will deliver three major policy speeches and make his presidential candidacy official with a tour through early primary states, ending in his home state of Arizona. John McCain’s first major policy speech on his commitment to winning the war in Iraq will be delivered April 11th at the Virginia Military Institute (VMI) in Lexington. Remainder of the press release is here.

(From “Inside VMI”) Senator John McCain will speak to the VMI Corps of Cadets at 11:30 a.m., Wednesday, 11 April, in Jackson Memorial Hall. He will present a major speech on the war. Due to space limitations in JM Hall, only the Corps of Cadets and a few invited guests will attend the speech. The speech is not open to the public. Press coverage for this event is expected to be considerable. Additional details will be released as received.

A comment on my own post: I wonder which pundit will be the first to draw an analogy on a policy announcement on the Iraq War given in front of the imposing painting of the charge of the Corps of Cadets at the Battle of New Market. The Comment Line is open…..

Updated: You can read about it, as well as view some photos on the VMI web site here