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 they live.nFogarty takes it upon himself to makena man and a leader out of Dean justnas his recently dead (in the Tet offensive)nfriend did to him several yearsnbefore. He pushes Dean—known to hisnderisive classmates as Baby Blue—tonhis mental, spiritual and physical limits,ndriving him to realize his potential asna man. Dean survives and matures withnthe most perilous feat of all—sprintingnwith Fogarty on the icecovered sea wallnin the predawn darkness. He becomes anman, and, as Lenahan later says, “Fogartyntaught him more about himself innfour days than he’d learned in nineteennyears.” At the end, after the politicalnblackmail of Professor Thad forces Fogartynto leave the Academy, Dean himselfnrealizes thankfully how much henowes his mentor. Captain Lenahan, thenproduct of the South Boston streets,ndivorced by a wife who betrayed himnwhile he was in combat, and still sufferingnpsychologically from his war expenriences, watches Dean move towardnmanhood. He does not interfere untilnhe realizes that Thad’s deep-seatednbigotry toward the military will be manifestednin an attempt to destroy both Fogartynand the Naval Academy. Thad succeedsnin getting Fogarty dismissed andnLenahan sent back to Vietnam, but thenAcademy survives.nRear Admiral Kraft, the sensitive andnhumane superintendent of the Academynwho has to act on Thad’s allegations, isnhimself a victim of the political and publicnneurosis that permits Thad to destroynany semblance of the courage, integritynand individualism that are necessary tona leader. As Webb describes him, “Kraftnwas not a technocrat who could run annuclear submarine, and he was not anM;nChronicles or Culturenpolitician who could be comfortablenwith the sophistry of Pentagon politics.nHe was a sea dog and a combat leader.nThe navy had chewed on him for thirtynyears, and it would soon spit him out.”nLike Kraft, Lenahan, too, has learned anbitter lesson about American leadershipnin the late 60’s. Describing Fogarty’sntreatment of Dean to the Admiral, hencomments, “But that’s using discretion,nand nobody trusts discretion anymore.nIn the meantime we’ve worked up regulationsnabout how to lead, how to discipline,nwhat you can say, what you cannask. So my man has violated regulations.nBig deal. Go ask Baby Blue if it hurtnhim. For the first time in his life henfeels proud of himself. He ran the goddamnnseawall in the dark this morning.nChrist, he wouldn’t even go outside innthe dark a week ago.” But faced with thenpolitical realities of a nation in turmoil,nAdmiral Kraft ca^ reply only with bitterness,n”When you,stand on principle,nyou take your chances.” Earlier, as henlistens to the fatuous Commander Pratt,nthe textbook ideal of the civilian ornmilitary middle manager, Lenahannthinks, “Regulations . . . Now we havenregulations about how to lead. Don’tnuse your head or your force or yournspirit. Follow the instructions, as ifnyou’re building a model airplane or angoddamn computer. They don’t trustnpeople anymore.”nThe conflict between Fogarty andnDean is paralleled by another which isn/ ‘ In the Mailnequally important. The tension betweennThad and Lenahan reflects the loss ofndirection and moral vitality that Americansuffered during the war. Thad is thenearnest young intellectual, probablynfrom a middle-class home, who has undoubtedlyngone straight from kindergartennthrough the Ph.D. and into hisnfirst teaching job without ever having,nas Richard III describes Richmond innShakespeare’s play, “Felt so much coldnas over shoes in winter.” He is ignorantnof human nature and history, and hisnignorance, compounded by his arrogant,nmisdirected civil libertarianism, is onlyndestructive. Had Thad been teaching atna civilian university he would have beennmindlessly frothing at a teach-in aboutn”American imperialism.” Lenahan, onnthe other hand, represents the traditionalnvalues—honor, honesty, sincerity,ncourage, integrity, humaneness—nto which Thad and his lawyer friend,nTom Stiles, are strangers. Lenahannknows the agonies Dean is goingnthrough, but he also realizes that ifnthe young man fails these tests of characternhe may very well fail more crucialnones in his military career when thenlives of others depend on him.nXhus A Sense of Honor deals withna conflict in values, a conflict betweennthe soft, shabby moral relativism ofnThad and Stiles on the one hand andnthe tougher, more demanding, morenrealistic values of Fogarty and LenahannThe Inter-American Foundation: A Mandate for Leadership Report by Cleto Di-nGiovanni, Jr.; The Heritage Foundation; Washington, D.C. 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