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In July of 1969 fourteen hundred men entered the United States Military Academy at West Point. Against a backdrop of the Vietnam War, the Peace Movement, and anti-war protests that tore families apart, they learned the meaning of duty, honor, and country. This is the riveting story of that tumultuous year as seen through the eyes of Phil DeAngelo, a naïve mid-western youth who has wanted to go to West Point since he was nine years old. The crucible of the Plebe year forces him to come to grips with a wider world where good and evil often co-exist, and where each man must find his own, often lonely, way.