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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 51912, member: 23&quot;]King - My husband is third generation Bowdoin College.&nbsp; If you know anything about the Civil War, you know who Joshua Chamberlain is.&nbsp; He was a Union hero and came home to Brunswick, Maine and became President of Bowdoin.&nbsp; He instituted the first ROTC type program.&nbsp; When he was in the war, he realized that all the officers were recruited from college graduates who came from moneyed families, but had no military training. Chamberlain felt this was what caused the massive loss of life.&nbsp; The graduating class of 1865 rebelled against the military training and the whole class was dismissed, but reinstated after their parents received letters of admonishment.&nbsp; My husband&#039;s great-grandfather was in that class.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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