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B Stieg

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February 20, 2018

Florida shooting: West Point admits murdered hero

Source: The BBC (on-line)

A reserves trainee who died helping other students escape a Florida school shooting has been posthumously accepted to a prestigious US military school.

Peter Wang, 15, who was one of 17 killed in the 14 February attack, was admitted to the class of 2025 at his dream school, West Point Academy.

He was a member of the US Army Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC), a school programme for potential US military officers.

His funeral took place on Tuesday.

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-43132215

What a soldier he would have been.

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About B Stieg

I'm the proud son of an Italian immigrant, a University of California composition instructor and a Ph.D. student currently writing a dissertation on the Rhetoric of Disability in the era of Informatics and New Media.