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OldRetiredHokie

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In an afterthought when I wasn't quite ready to be drafted


I knew some HS classmates that were coming here and science and math had been my best subjects in HS... didn't realize how much harder they would be at Tech. Never saw the place until my parents dropped me off in front of W. Eggleston. I immediately fell in love with the place.. although I thought orange and maroon were the ugliest school colors I had ever seen.

Couple years later I was being startled awake by incoming rockets and mortars with a vision of the drill field still in my mind's eye. I survived and came back

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Posted: 07/13/2021 at 10:17AM



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