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Cornwall on hudson lies the united states military academy at westpoint. >> it said that he has aspirations to be a leader in the army. >> dave wanted to go to westpoint as far back as i can remember and threw himself into sports and studied and occasionally hanging with the guys. >> like a million other teenagers the kids in cornwall found simple ways to kill time. >> there wasn't much to do in cornwall. lot of times some of us would hang out at the pizza place. >> prima pizza was the local teen hang. >> there was a railing outside prima pizza that all the kids would sit like birds on a wire ...

What dave said he was going to do, he has done it. >> eight months after dave petraeus was confirmed as commander multinational force iraq he was back in washington. >> i hope that every american has a chance to observe general petraeus and i think that they will be convinced that this strategy is succeeding and we need to stay with it. >> i would like to note that this is my testimony. >> he is there to provide an assessment, not to get involved in the politics of exactly what happened. >> mcclellan was brought back to testify during the civil war and, of course, westmoreland was brought back...

Weapons training david petraeus met someone special. >> david had a certain legend there. he married the superintendent's daughter which gives you some kind of a reputation. >> dave and holly tied the knot months after the young officer graduated near the top of his class in 1974. his new father in law was academy superintendent general william nolt. in. they devoted themselves to building a life around military service. two children, a boy and girl were born as petraeus worked his way up the ranks, starting out as a papula tune leader in italy. he would move 17 times in 30 years including two...

"patton." >> we are advancing and not interested in holding on anything except the enemy. we going to hold on to him by the nose and kick him in the ass. we are going to kick the hell out of him all the time and go through him like crap through a goose. >> the beatless broke up and the nation was still deeply involved in the fight against communism in an unpopular war, vietnam. it was against this backdrop, that heather, allen and dave donned their caps and gowns and graduated from high school. it didn't come as a surprise to any one when dave got into westpoint. his mother was elate. >> she w...

Fairly certain david didn't attend. >> david's spare time during the frigid northeast winter was spent on the nearby ski slopes of west point. his father was a skilled skier and dave was no different. >> he was a natural. he took to it as if he had been ski skiing forever. he used to be able to get ski passes to use the slopes at westpoint and we all skied there. i would say most of the kids in the '70 all learned to ski at westpoint by skiing every night. and westpoint would play loud rock music on the ski slopes so even for people learning to ski it was easy to ski off the beats of the rock ...