Virginia Military Institute – The Musings of the Big Red Car

In The Company Of Good Men — VMI Class of 1973, 50th Reunion

Big Red Car — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 16:04:47 +0000

The test of every relationship is this: Does it inject energy into your existence; or, does it hijack, kidnap energy from your life? This is true of personal friendships, marriages, business alliances, employees, mutually owned vacation homes, hunting leases, co-oped airplanes, and all situations in which we flawed humans engage with others of the species. […]

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Oddities in the Southern Muse

Big Red Car — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 15:42:05 +0000

So, a chap and I are comparing notes on relative college experiences. He went to some placed called Harvard, supposedly a school of some note, but I cannot personally vouch for it. I tell him I went to Virginia Military Institute, a place founded on 11 November 1839 in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia — […]

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Veterans Day 2021

Big Red Car — Thu, 11 Nov 2021 20:46:25 +0000

Respect to all veterans on Veterans Day! “I, Jeffrey L Minch, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation […]

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RIP Colonel Donald K Jamison

Big Red Car — Mon, 09 Dec 2019 05:57:19 +0000

I was blessed to have a wonderful father who shaped me and made me into a young man, but he then sent me to Virginia Military Institute to finish off the job. I was lucky. I was studying civil engineering and my faculty advisor was Colonel Donald K Jamison. Colonel Jamison was a civil engineering […]

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The Battle of New Market

Big Red Car — Tue, 15 May 2018 17:48:30 +0000

Big Red Car here on the anniversary of the Battle of New Market on 15 May 1864. It is a touchstone of the Virginia Military Institute whose cadets stormed Yankee artillery batteries with bayonets across a muddy field which came to be known as the Field of Lost Shoes. The cadets lost 10 KIA and […]

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VMI — Inaugural Parade

Big Red Car — Sat, 21 Jan 2017 17:52:29 +0000

Big Red Car here on a sunny Saturday in the ATX still enjoying the Inauguration, the Inaugural Parade, the Inaugural Balls. Talking VMI. My favorite thing was the VMI (Virginia Military Institute) cadets, 1,500 strong, bringing up the rear of the parade. Saving the best for last in the their red caped overcoats with white […]

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Happy Veteran’s Day, Happy VMI Founder’s Day

Big Red Car — Wed, 11 Nov 2015 15:51:29 +0000

Big Red Car here on a grayish and muggy Veteran’s Day in the ATX. There are three things about 11 November that are important. First, it is Veteran’s Day. Second, Virginia Military Institute and Austin, Texas were both founded on 11 Novemberr 1839. That is the trifecta! The Boss is a veteran and his mother […]

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11 November 1839

Big Red Car — Sun, 03 Nov 2013 15:33:49 +0000

Big Red Car here. Ahh, did you get outside yesterday? Perfect temperature and a Mediterranean quality to the sky and light. AWESOME! On Earth as it is in ATX. Speaking of the ATX, did you know it was founded on 11 November 1839? Well it was. Did you also know that the Virginia Military Institute […]

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Explosives

Big Red Car — Sat, 13 Apr 2013 16:05:46 +0000

Big Red Car here. Enjoying the wonderful mild weather here in the ATX — Austin, Texas. The ATX. The Boss and one of his old Army friends were chewing the fat the other day and got to talking about all the interesting stuff they did all those years ago when they were young and dangerous […]

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Virginia Military Institute at the Inaugural Parade

Big Red Car — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:56:48 +0000

Big Red Car here. Well yesterday was the Inauguration of President Obama for his second term as President. One of the traditions of Inauguration Day is the parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. The Boss is a graduate of Virginia Military Institute, the Nation’s oldest state military college often called the West Point of the South. [VMI […]

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