For some, including nine mids who spent their personal vacation time this summer helping build a school and an AIDS clinic in Africa, the experiences were eye-opening and life-altering.
"We white people were a walking amusement park for them," Midshipman 3rd Class Chris Memminger, a sophomore from Jacksonville, Fla., said of the way young village children in Nigeria reacted.
"The kids were the most beautiful things you have ever seen," he said.
Then he added: "All the kids (at the...
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