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Peter Wang was a freshman at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. He was also an Army JROTC cadet who dreamed of attending West Point and serving his country. On February 14, 2018, when the shooting started, Peter was in study hall. As panic spread through the corridors, he moved towards the exit. Not to flee, but to hold the door open for his classmates to escape behind him. He was shot and killed in a third floor hallway. He was found still wearing his JROTC uniform. He was only 15 years old. For his actions he was posthumously awarded the ROTC Medal for Heroism by the US Army, and also posthumously admitted to the United States Military Academy at West Point for the class of 2025. The West Point class of 2025 voted to give Peter their Honorary Graduate Award, because as one cadet put it, he embodied duty, honor, and country before he ever had the chance to wear the uniform for real. He never made it to West Point. But he already lived everything West Point stands for.