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 Thanks for being level-headed and I'll post my last comments now.  Key words are ""fought as a unit in battle.""  As a military man, I can assure you that the citadel folks are trying to say that they had cadets fight in battles, and that is fine.  That the citadel had cadets fight in battles is not being disputed.  ""Fighting as a unit"" is different altogether.  Dozens of schools had students fight in various battles in the Civil War, that was the nature of the war.  Only one school fought as a unit in combat, ever...and that's VMI.  Sorry for being heated (I'm a South Carolinian myself) but I continually see citadel folks latch onto VMI in virtually every regard, and they are definitely stretching the truth here.  It's just plain ""cheezy!"" 
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