"A Matter of Honor"

It should come to no surprise that honor as a very large thing at the Virginia Military Institute as the military itself holds honor the highest characteristics of it's soldiers. Drumming out a student of the VMI is the schools form of a court marshal in the military. Honor is held by many as probably the best characteristic to have as it shows what kind of person you are and can be. A person of high honor can be seen getting good jobs and getting the promotions as the are deemed trustworthy and most of the time comes with a hard working lifestyle. That's why you see it being a big thing in the military and military schools such as VMI, because how can you have a good military if you can't trust the members in it and the don't want to do what they are told.