The Bulldog Monument
The Bulldog Monument is a memorial dedicated to Maj. Sam M. Savas, Jr., 1951, who died in Vietnam in October 1965. He also served as a Citadel tactical officer from 1962 to 1965.
As a cadet and while in service to The Citadel, Savas so inspired cadets that upon his death, cadet members of the Society of American Engineers erected the monument in his honor in 1966.
The monument also contains a bronze plaque in memory of Savas’s son, Lt. Sam M. Savas, III, a naval aviator and member of the Class of 1979, who died in service to his country in October 1985.
The Bulldog Monument is made from brass belt buckles, waist plates and breast plates contributed by cadets