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Bush visit to spotlight role of Merchant Marine Academy.
(From AP Worldstream)
Byline: FRANK ELTMAN
It is a United States service academy situated in a strategic location just outside New York City. Its graduates have fought and died for their country in all corners of the world, and since Sept. 11 have played a key role in bolstering homeland security.
Not West Point _ but Kings Point. Not the Army or Marines _ but the merchant marines.
Even though some midshipmen acknowledge their school is viewed as "the redheaded stepchild of the service academies," they are hoping that begins to change on Monday when George W. Bush becomes the first American president to address a graduating class of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
"I think it's huge that the president is coming here," said Rear Adm. Christopher McMahon, deputy superintendent of the academy, located on an 82-acre (33-hectare) campus 20 miles (30…
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