Standing on Principle

his mother's apron strings; Ted Lenahan,na Marine captain, gravely woundednin Vietnam, who now serves as a companynofficer at the Academy; and ProfessornJonathan Thad, a young and selfrighteousncivilian instructor at thenAcademy who can recite the Bill ofnRights but knows nothing of its significancenfor human beings and the world innwhich . . .