HERNDON - Class of 2022

I am with you, MidCakePa. I was there watching and listening to them sing, and it was indescribable.
During the course of them climbing, I went up to the edge several times and took photos, even though I could not see my Plebe.
It wasn't until later in the hotel room, that I was able to view them, that I saw that I had several great photos of my Plebe in the melee.
 
As a new parent to all of this and paying close attention the last few months as my DS has expressed interest, I have been impressed with all your traditions associated w USNA. This was the first I watched Herndon. I found it emotional and I don’t have a horse in the race!! In 2 years can’t imagine my emotions if DS would actually be part of it!!
 
Hope that guy gets basketball. Three point range is a given.
 
THParent said:
They do not technically become "Youngsters" (3C) until they change out their shoulder boards on Friday (at Commissioning), when that first cover thrown into the air hits the deck.
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Actually, they become Third Class Midshipmen at graduation. They really are not Youngsters until the first see the chapel dome AFTER Youngster Cruise.
 
MidCakePa said:
I’m not a very emotionally expressive person (much to DW’s chagrin). Yet I couldn’t help but get teary eyed at two points. One, when the officer’s cover stuck on the third toss and pandemonium ensued while the human pyramid collapsed. Two, when 1200 plebes-no-more — stripped down, sweaty, dirty, exhausted from the year and not just the one hour and five minutes — held hand to heart and sang “Blue and Gold.” I cried, knowing DD was in the crowd doing that very thing. I cried and hoped no one would walk into my office just then. Plebe year is like nothing else in the world.
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agreed and yes -to be there and watch with each failed toss and hear the groan and then to see it stick and the cheers that went up-the experience was like no other
 
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