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Behind the scenes with DOL at West Point's R-Day 2009

On Monday, from all across the fruited plain, 1,304 new cadets travelled to the Hudson Valley for what would be their initial indoctrination into the U.S. Military. Getting the new cadets ready to ...
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Cadet Uniform Factory performs at high pace as R-Day approaches

With a thimble on her right middle finger, Ester Quiroc works the needle and black thread through the collar of a cadet's long overcoat. With Reception Day just a few days away, the crunch is on. The ...
The New Yorker

R-Day at West Point, When Teen-Agers Start Becoming Cadets

Last month, the photographer Drew Vickers was in West Point, New York, when more than a thousand members of the class of 2021 arrived for Reception Day at the United States Military Academy. R-Day, as ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

R U OK? Day: How Gavin Larkin's memory lives on through his family and the movement he started

As R U OK? Day rolled out for a third year across Australia in 2011, its founder Gavin Larkin was anything but OK. Gavin Larkin set up R U OK? in 2009 as a personal project to honour his late father ...
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Rainier Beer's R-Day to take over Seattle's Georgetown neighborhood this weekend

Mudhoney is set to headline the free Rainier Beer R-Day block party on September 6 in Georgetown, with performances from La Luz, Tres Leches, and DJ Jewel also planned. The event will feature local ...