Opinion | Charlotte Clymer: 'As Trump shakes the hands of every graduating cadet in the midst of this global pandemic...I can only hope...that he’ll look every last one in the eye and reflect on what he’s asking them to do for his own benefit'
For four years, the focus of these students has been to learn — not just their academics, but also how to serve our country with respect and fidelity to the Constitution. But rather than honoring these students’ commitment to serving others and to protecting them as well as they will seek to protect us, Trump has ordered them to put themselves in harm’s way and undergo a logistical nightmare simply to fulfill a vain desire to lord over a grand military ceremony in an election year.
Thus, 1,000 cadets will, as ordered, travel back to West Point — many by car but most of them by plane — and those who fly will mostly go from New York City’s airports to Highland Falls via some mode of commercial public transportation, be it chartered buses, or by commuter rail from Grand Central Station to Garrison, and then by taxi or bus to campus. Along the way, they will inevitably be touching doors, guardrails, various handles, making contact with strangers and one another.
Initially thought to be risky only for the elderly and other vulnerable people, the virus is now known to be deadly even for young, physically fit individuals. Available statistics now
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