Crazy On Tap - amazing person. dead.

amazing person. dead.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/26/westpoint.cadet.ap/index.html?section=cnn_latest

makes me cry. Not because she's black/brown, but because she was just amazing. She gave bone marrow to a stranger. Wow. I heard that is pretty painful, actually. She speaks German and she is brilliant. Or was.

sharkfish
September 27th, 2006 12:24pm

The service academies have a tradition of graduating good people. She sounds like she was one of their best.

xampl
September 27th, 2006 12:38pm

Sad loss.

What struck me was. Sec. Lt. the highest rank for a Black/Hispanic woman? Isn't the least a Major, if not a Colonel, given that Powell made to 4 stars?

के. जे.
September 27th, 2006 1:36pm

Poor writing, probably. They meant something else. Whatever that was.

sharkfish
September 27th, 2006 1:58pm

Obviously they mean highest place in her graduating class, not in military rank. 2nd Lt. is the bottom officer rank, so nobody that graduated is below that.

Lurk Machine
September 27th, 2006 1:59pm

Well, perhaps they mean, out of all the Female, Black, Hispanics that have graduated from West Point, she made it the highest in rank. So far.

I agree, poorly written.

SaveTheHubble
September 27th, 2006 6:16pm

Could also mean she was was the Female, Black, Hispanic that graduated highest in her class of all Female, Black, Hispanics.

SaveTheHubble
September 27th, 2006 6:18pm

She couldn't have been TOO fucking bright, she joined the US military.

muppet
September 27th, 2006 8:00pm

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