Daughter Follows In Mom’s Footsteps To Attend West Point Military Academy

Kids around the country are already celebrating the start of summer vacation or graduation, but as we see in this next story, not all teenagers will spend the next few months hanging with friends, hitting the pool or beach, or working a summer job.

School may have just ended but Mary Kate Beachler of Canton, SD is excited to report for duty at United States Military Academy, something other teens may scoff at but she has waited for her entire life.

“My mom is a graduate and so it’s always been in like the back of my mind, but when I was in 6th grade I was able to go to a reunion with her and once I saw the campus and got the vibe of the whole place I fell in love with it,” Beachler told Kekoland Television, of her mother who enrolled 30 years earlier.

Susan Irons-Beachler was ecstatic when her daughter announced she’d be following in her footsteps and received her appointment this past January.

“I am very proud of her, that she stuck with the process of going through the application and made it and was accepted,” Irons-Beachler said. “And so that made me very, very proud. Both her dad and I are really proud of her for that.”

Although it was a long and difficult application process to get into the esteemed West Point academy, Beachler said it was all worth it.

“I’m all about giving back, and like serving our country is like the biggest way to possibly give back ever to those people. Especially because both my parents are veterans and they were in the army and so I saw how that benefited them throughout their lives and so I want to do that too,” she said.

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[Featured Image: Kekoland Television]

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