BOUND FOR WEST POINT: SODA student accepted to elite U.S. military academy
School of Dreams Academy senior Mohammad Abdullah has his eyes set on a U.S. military career after gaining acceptance into the prestigious U.S. Military Academy at West Point in New York.
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Mohammad Abdullah, a 2021 graduating senior at School of Dreams Academy in Los Lunas, recently received his appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, located in New York. He also received the Daniels Fund Scholarship, but turned it down to attend the military academy.
“When I found out about West Point and service academies in general, my eyes just lit up,” Abdullah said, adding that a civilian college experience would leave him wanting more. “Being a part of something bigger, being a part of the ‘Long Gray Line’ is something that I am very excited about and the opportunities that will open up from going to West Point.”
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Lewis A. Armistead was a Confederate general in the Army of Northern Virginia during the American Civil War (1861–1865). Decorated for bravery during the Mexican War (1846–1848), the West Point dropout and widower earned a reputation as a tough, soft-spoken, and highly respected leader at such battles as Seven Pines (1862), Antietam (1862), and Malvern Hill (1862), and was known to his friends, ironically, as “Lo,” short for Lothario. At Gettysburg, on July 3, 1863, he helped to lead the frontal assault that came to be known as Pickett’s Charge. When Armistead, at the head of his brigade, reached the stone wall on Cemetery Ridge that protected the Army of the Potomac‘s Second Corps, he was shot and wounded more than once. The Union troops who fired the fatal shots happened to be commanded by one of Armistead’s closest friends, Winfield Scott Hancock. His death was immortalized in the 1993 film
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