Brown Military Academy, San Diego...

An overhead view of the former Brown Military Academy in Pacific Beach, California where I only attended for a period of six months...I was sort of tricked into going to this school by my guardians, at the time, and I was quite miserable while attending this boarding school...Going from right to left as you look at this photo is as follows: The auditorium, the mess hall, the administration building, the infirmary and the chapel, "D" barracks (for the little kids), "C" barracks, where I was located (junior high school age), then "B" barracks for the older boys (high school age) and finally "A" barracks for the college age and ROTC cadets who were trying to go on to West Point..As a matter of fact, our uniforms were exactly the same as those worn at West Point..And after saying all that, I hated this school with a passion, and I was a miserable son-of-a-bitch while attending this boarding military school..My folks, or my guardians, at the time (my mother and grandmother) tried to get me to go back the next year..In fact, they insisted on it, trying to get rid of me...They were actually forcing me to go back, but I out-smarted them in the end, and I got to go back to public schools where I felt I belonged..I`m not a military type of guy anyway...

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