My Great Grandfather

     A few days ago my dad and I had a conversation about English. It was just about how I liked it and how I was doing. I told him I liked the class and i'm doing ok in it. He then remembered something that his grandfather wrote. He wouldn't tell mewhat it was until I got home from baseball. After my practice we got home and my dad pulled out a very old, or at least it looked like, a year book. I opened it and it was a naval academy biographical year book. It had every cadets name along with a little biography about them. My dad said to find my great grandfather in the index, so I looked and found it, "Hartt W. H. Jr." William H Hartt Jr. on page 221. I fliped to the page and found that on his biography a whole bunch of his good academic record and stuff. I didn't find anything really interesting until my dad pointed something out. It said close to, "He had very few violent outbreaks but the few were with the Academic department..." My dad said he fought in english to sustain a passing grade. Knowing the history in my family, my dad never liked english, my grandfather never really liked english, and my great grandfather never really liked english makes me wonder why i'm the oddball out?

Silver Medal Awarded
Naval Academy Biographical Yearbook Excerpt