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Monday, November 16, 2009
Gross Neglect of Duty
From Thomas Ayres'
A Military Miscellany
. In 1831 Edgar Allan Poe was enrolled as a cadet at West Point but
was expelled for disobeying an order and "gross neglect of duty".
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