PREAMBLE
Eight words describe what CMA meant to me and my remembrance of those years: Time Spent...Knowledge Gained...Friendships Formed...Memories Made.

DECLAMATORY
Columbia Military Academy for 75 years stood tall among the greats of the preparatory schools of our nation. Its demise came about nearly a generation ago. Its memory now fades in the disappearing dust of marching cadets, but that memory remains flickering in the hearts and minds of those generations that passed this way.

We of those generations, our hearts swelled with nostalgia, see our ranks grow thin, and we wonder who will tell future generations of this great and honored institution? Who will remember those of that long gray line that marched past? Some marched into history. Others,