tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post4269425670944747235..comments2024-02-23T18:13:50.944-08:00Comments on Linton Hall Military School alumni memories: What the Linton Hall Military School brochure said ... and what it was really likeLinton Hall Cadethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10600017413387458345noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-21427939951292240822015-06-03T10:00:14.742-07:002015-06-03T10:00:14.742-07:00I went there wheh i was 7 years old,1953.why any p...I went there wheh i was 7 years old,1953.why any parent would send a young boy to this hell hole i do not understand?i never asked them that i can remember.The nuns were very meannnnnn,they forced a egg down my throat when i refused to eat it,to this day i cannot eat a egg .the rules an regulations were way to strict for young boys not used to a prison or reform school atmosphere,food was terrible an not enough of it.I had not thought of this nightmare school until i accidentaly ran across an article about the school by accident recently.Apparently the school improved somewhat after the early fiftys ,though not much from what i have read.Brings back bad memoies the few i can still remember,just as well i guess.Enough of reliving a nightmare,sorry i ever saw the article about this School??? P.S. I ran away. Clyde in AZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-9637027652489195612011-12-07T16:27:58.329-08:002011-12-07T16:27:58.329-08:00Alumnus. 1968-1972.Alumnus. 1968-1972.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-9256382453070858312011-12-07T14:17:39.832-08:002011-12-07T14:17:39.832-08:00Well, no. The point of this post is that the broc...Well, no. The point of this post is that the brochure paints a wonderful picture totally different than the reality of LHMS. Of course the brochure is from 20 years before I went there, but I cannot believe that anyone's parents would have sent their kids there if the reality of the place reported in my blog and the other cadet's blog, had been known. <br /><br />If Linton Hall was so proud of itself, why didn't they put in their brochures a list of the punishments used, and how these punishments were meted out for even minor infractions? (See the other cadet's blog.)<br /><br />Why did they need to censor outgoing mail? It was never done at any of the sleepaway camps I attended.<br /><br />I did mention some of these things while I was there not just in letters that might not have been sent out, but when home for the weekend. Not all, I was too embarrassed to say that at the age of 13 I still had a nun watching me naked every time I took a shower. "See, mom, I have some pubic hair, and my testicles are growing, and sometimes I get an erection and my penis is x inches big and it's embarrassing to have a nun see me" wasn't something I felt discussing with my own mother. And I didn't much dioscuss the way other kids got beaten, I only complained about what happened to me, and I was lucky and/or well-behaved enough that I was able to avoid most of the abuse, though I lived in constant fear of having it happen to me.<br /><br />Add to that the fact that the nuns put on an aura of holiness and respectability. It's a bit like when kids (at other schools) complained about being molested by priests; it was hard to believe that someone who purportedly had dedicated his life to God would do such things.<br /><br />Also, "military school" and "abusive" are not synonyms. LHMS is the only military school I attended, but I have heard from those who attended other military schools that the environment was much better elsewhere.<br /><br />Finally, even if parents had thought it okay to do these things to us, that doesn't excuse the behavior of the adults in charge. <br /><br />I would be curious about whether you're an alumnus, parent, nun, etc. and what years you were there.Linton Hall Cadethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10600017413387458345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4750826612004321375.post-90363763723172469812011-12-06T17:20:31.179-08:002011-12-06T17:20:31.179-08:00Just an observation, but it seems your real compla...Just an observation, but it seems your real complaint is with your parents decision to send you to military school in the first place. As a child you would have no way of knowing what it was going to be, but your parents knew, or should have known the environment that a military school would have provided.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com