VMI: The West Point of the South

Somewhere between stabbing sausages with their bayonets and "raping” virgin ducks, the cadets of Virginia Military Institute become men. They don’t call themselves men. They call themselves rats or dykes or rankers or something even ruder. But we’ll call them men

January 1 1980 FRANK ROSE George Bennett
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VMI: The West Point of the South

Somewhere between stabbing sausages with their bayonets and "raping” virgin ducks, the cadets of Virginia Military Institute become men. They don’t call themselves men. They call themselves rats or dykes or rankers or something even ruder. But we’ll call them men

January 1 1980 FRANK ROSE George Bennett

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