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It's May 29, 2004.

Graduation Day at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.

The U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, stands on a stage in a football stadium, squinting into the crowd.

It's a privilege to be here in the shadows of some of the greatest leaders of our age,

and to celebrate today with the leaders who will follow in their footsteps.

Rumsfeld is speaking to about 900 graduating cadets.

They wear clean white hats and gray wool jackets.

Scattered among the graduates are about 50,

who are a little different from the rest.

They're part of West Point's little-known foreign cadet program. They're the international

students, essentially. West Point aims to instill in them a familiarity with and a respect for

the U.S. military. Dozens of allied countries participate in it.

The idea is that those countries end up with well-educated future leaders.

The United States also gets something out of this program.

Future foreign counterparts who have a relationship with the U.S. military on a personal level.

Rumsfeld knows the value in grooming these cadets.

He even gives them a shout-out in his speech.

They come from all across this great country and from, I'm told,

American, Samoa, Cameroon, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Jordan.

That nod to Honduras actually refers to a single student, David Castillo.

He's spent the past four years here, taking the exact same classes as his American counterparts,

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