{"id":78103,"date":"2018-03-06T09:06:04","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T14:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=78103"},"modified":"2018-03-06T16:59:34","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T21:59:34","slug":"shannon-faulkner-stolen-collegiate-valor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=78103","title":{"rendered":"Shannon Faulkner; Stolen Collegiate Valor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Shannon Faulkner spent two years in a legal battle with The Citadel. She joined the Corps of Cadets on August 15, 1995 accompanied by US Marshals and the media after the US Supreme Court ruled that Virginia Military Institute had to accept women in their ranks or forfeit US tax dollars. <\/p>\n

Faulkner clearly wasn’t prepared for the rigors of cadet life, she obviously thought that the court order would carry her through her four years. She lasted four hours on her first day before she went to the infirmary and six days later she resigned. In a 2012 interview, Faulkner said that a cadet threatened her parent’s lives causing her to quit. <\/p>\n

Well, according to the Post and Courier<\/a> she spoke at the Citadel this last weekend;<\/p>\n

“I enjoyed being a member of The Citadel family. I do consider myself a Citadel alumni,” she said at a symposium on the life and legacy of the late South Carolina novelist Pat Conroy. “This is my school as much as anybody else’s. I won\u2019t talk badly about the school and what it represents because I believe in it.” <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, no, you were there for four hours. You had an historic opportunity, but you squandered it.<\/p>\n

Nancy Mace, the actual first female graduate of The Citadel, addressed Faulkner on her Facebook page<\/a>;<\/p>\n

She doesn\u2019t wear The Ring because she didn\u2019t earn it. And she sure as hell ain\u2019t my mother. That\u2019s an insult to my mother. And in the hearts of most #Citadel graduates \u2014 she\u2019s not alumni. There is no edification or achievement in her failure. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Anyone watching the incessant news coverage of the event could tell that Faulkner wasn’t going to make it. Instead of preparing herself for entrance into The Citadel she conducted pastry assaults on her mom’s kitchen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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