BY EXAMPLE - Class 68, Sergeant Major Academy

"BY EXAMPLE" Sergeant Major Academy, Class 68 - Fort Bliss, Texas. The original painting is Oil on canvas mounted to board, 24"x 36". To CLASS 68: It dawned on me, being somewhat of a history nut, that Class 68 holds the distinguished and special distinction of having it's leadership class during the "Centennial Year" of America's crucible into the Great War. This war changed the battlefield and world forever in so many different ways. Ways that we still experience in our world today through equipment technology in warfare and battlefield tactics, to the establishment of modern day Countries and their borders. There are too many parallels of your mission as a rank, Academy make up, and this wonderful history of America's willingness to come together and lead the way "by example" (the class motto) during the Great War to mention.  It is our duty as countrymen to honor and remember the leadership and sacrifice of those men and women who led "by example" before us (total Americans kille