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Texas A&M’s Melting Point
Few places on the main campus of Texas A&M University bear a stronger connection to the school’s civic religion than the altar near Rudder Tower, in the Rudder Theatre Complex, between the entrances to Rudder Auditorium, where Major General James Earl Rudder’s medals are on display for all time, the measure of a titanic man.You know, Rudder! Class of ’32, a vintage of men from whom much would be asked. Commander of the Second Ranger Battalion who, in search of heavy artillery that threatened the Normandy beaches, climbed the hundred-foot cliffs of Pointe du Hoc with ropes and grappling hooks under machine-gun fire, in darkness, with too few troops, but who nonetheless cracked open fortress Europe and then drove a shiv into its dark heart.Rudder!…The post Texas A&M’s Melting Point appeared first on Texas Monthly.