Among the participants in the ceremony on Sunday morning was Bou Meng, 70, one of the very few survivors of Tuol Sleng prison, whose commandant, Kaing Guek Eav, known as Duch, was convicted in July 2010 in the first Khmer Rouge trial and sentenced to 35 years in prison, a term that was then commuted to 19 years.
The commandant of the Marine Corps, Gen. James L. Jones, ordered the general whose command includes the service's V-22 Osprey squadron to review for possible disciplinary action the final Pentagon report into falsified Osprey maintenance records.
General Amos, who is the service's assistant commandant, would replace Gen. James Conway, whose term as commandant ends this fall.
The Grand Commandant, whose title was changed to Grand Marshal in 119 BC before reverting to Grand Commandant in 51 AD, was the irregularly posted commander of the military and then regent during the Western Han period.
The only reason my father survived the war was because the Nazi commandant whose uniforms he tailored warned him of a roundup and let him go into hiding".
Hla Maung Shwe, a businessman whose brother is commandant of the National Defense University, told me, "In the Army for twenty-nine years, my brother had one chance at exposure — a trip to Thailand for three days".
The case against Dreyfus, such as it was, began to unravel when Lt. Col. Marie-Georges Picquart stumbled on evidence that the real spy was Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy, a commandant whose handwriting did indeed match that of the bordereau, and who did indeed need money to cover huge debts.
The sections each begin with one of the fish Gould studied, and they start to resemble, or perhaps become, human characters in his life, the most memorable of whom is the sadistic, syphilitic Commandant, whose "folly was to think you could turn a penal colony into a nation".
This official, whose title had been Commandant of the Capital (Zhongwei 中尉) before 104 BC, maintained law and order in the capital city excluding the imperial palaces in both Western Han Chang'an and Eastern Han Luoyang.
There is also madness and mayhem, brought impressively to life in the figure of the Commandant, a syphilitic megalomaniac whose lunatic plans to recreate the glories of the enlightenment on Sarah Island bring the community to the brink of implosion.
The camp is run by a sadistic commandant, Oberst von Scherbach (played by Otto Preminger), whose orders are carried out by his avuncular but dutiful sergeant, Johann Sebastian Schulz (Sig Ruman).
