Education
Atwater is a 1968 graduate of Berea College in Berea, Kentucky and holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in history and political science with a minor in philosophy and religion. Following a decade of service in the U.S. military, he attended Duke University where he was awarded an Master of Arts in Military History in 1984 and a Ph.D in military history in 1985.
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