The Oldest "Old Grad"

West Point doesn't have "graduates", we have "old grads".  It's not too much of an exaggeration to say that the phrase "the Corps has" (gone to Hell in a handbasket, is the unspoken coda) is uttered by every graduating lieutenant within a year of graduation!

Here's a story of the oldest old grad:

He is the oldest living graduate of West Point, where for centuries the Army has trained its elite candidates.

There are 54,132 graduates of the academy still among us.

Ray, at 104, is their elder statesman.

I found him in assisted living in Virginia — that’s now home...