You'll either be impressed or put off by the extreme discipline of the cadets at Virginia Military Institute, the only university to have sent its entire graduating class into combat (plaques to student war dead are touching and ubiquitous). The VMI Museum houses the stuffed carcass of Stonewall Jackson's horse, a homemade American flag made by an alumnus prisoner of war in Vietnam, and a tribute to VMI students killed in the War on Terror.
Contact the museum for a free guided tour of the campus offered at noon. A full-dress parade takes place most Fridays at 4:30pm during the school year. The school's George C Marshall Museum honors the creator of the Marshall Plan for post-WWII European reconstruction.
