re: State Fans turning on Stingray for Tosh.O

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I have been involved in higher education for over half my life, as a student, professor or administrator.

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/Hijack mode ON

The smartest professor I ever had was my freshmen English Professor at the Citadel. He graduated from the Citadel in 1950 an was promptly shipped off to Korea to fight in the Korean War as an infantry Lieutenant.

He was shot up so badly during an engagement they though he was dead and threw him on a truck full of dead bodies. Someone just happened to see him move and they pulled him off and got him patched up. He spent about 6 months on a hospital ship before they could ship him back to the States. He spent the next year or two in Walter Reed learning to walk (and everything else) again. He earned a Masters from Duke in Shakespearean literature from his hospital bed at Walter Reed.

He was a 4 sport Letterman at the Citadel (Football, Basketball, Baseball and Track (you could do that in the 1950s)). He once told us in class that while in the hospital he knew he'd be lucky to walk again, much less run again. So he threw himself into reading. He was THE most well read person I have ever met. And unbelievably tough (both physically and academically).

RIP Col. Alexander.