citadel

Imagination is a storm of emotions that has the power to sweep citadels into the wind.

From the beginning, I__e told journalists that I planned to write better than any writer of my era who graduated from an Ivy League college. It sounds boastful and it is. But The Citadel taught me that I was a man of courage when I survived that merciless crucible of a four-year test that is the measure of The Citadel experience. I__ the kind of writer I am because of The Citadel.

My career still strikes me as miraculous. That a boy raised on Marine bases in the South, taught by Roman Catholic nuns in backwater Southern towns that loathed Catholics, and completed his education with an immersion into The Citadel__he whole story sounds fabricated, impossible even to me. Maybe especially to me.