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K In the center of the Academy Quarterdeck, are a ship's wheel, four rifles, and a stand of colors, which receive the salute of every officer or mid- shipman coming aboard. Here, on a flag, is a smaller emblem of curious design and proud sig- nificance. It is the Battle Standard, which sets Kings Point apart from its sister academies, as the sole federal training institution which has sent her undergraduate sons out to meet the enemy in wartime and to die at his hands. The standard is a silent reminder that the class- room in which from 1941 to 1945, every Kings Pointer received at least one fourth of his educa- tion was in a combat zone. During those four years, unlike his peers entering other colleges, civilian or military, he faced and knew from the start he faced the prospect of being eye to eye with the enemy. The Cadet Corps might be in training for a non-military profession, but it could take an astringent pride that being frequently un- der fire was emphatically synonymous with being under the Articles of War. Its aspect recalls medieval heraldic banners. Its groundwork is the thirteen red and white stripes, without stars, which were first adpoted as the first merchant flag of the United States by the Conti- nental Congress, but never confirmed by its Fed- eral successor under the Constitution. Superim- posed on this ground is a modification of the Academy seal, an eagle above a shield, which dis- plays the same horizontal stripes. Below this em- blem, and nearer the fly is a blue compass rose with the numerals 142, the number of Kings Point Cadet-Midshipmen lost in action during the sec- ond World War. Colored streamers from the tip of the staff signal the Cadet Corps' battle honors. The Battle Standard is a symbol of Kings Point- ers and the sea. A symbol representing the proud heritage of the . . . ii
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