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West Point's chief wants gender-neutral songs

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West Point's chief wants gender-neutral songs

Friday, May 16, 2008 / 04:17 PM

http://www.planetout.com/news/article.html?2008/05/16/4

The head of the U.S. Military Academy thinks it's time to replace the "men" and "sons" in West Point's two most beloved songs with more gender-neutral lyrics.

Lt. Gen. Franklin "Buster" Hagenbeck, superintendent of the nation's oldest military academy, told a congressional oversight committee Wednesday that with more than 3,000 women graduating from West Point since 1976, the change is long overdue.

"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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