“It is pretty tough sometimes to live in a country that you love so much you would die for, but it doesn’t love you back.” Veterans react to the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision as a 'slap in the face.'
Cadets take the Commissioning Oath at the conclusion of ceremonies at Michie Stadium at West Point's graduationgraduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, Mary Tobin was part of the largest cohort of black women in the school’s history, to that point. There were about 25, out of more than 1,000 students.
Still, as the daughter of a student who protested to desegregate lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee, Tobin saw her time at West Point — plus 10 years in the Army and two tours of Iraq — as her own contribution to a longer-term project of making the country a more equitable place. “I grew up with this idea that the wrongs that you see, you must address,” she says.
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