Is this real?

  New intern girl at work in the other department. Getting to know her at lunch, she reveals that she went to college at the Citadel. Which sounded terrible enough, but then:

  "Being enrolled there automatically makes you a member of the South Carolina militia."

  "Oh... that sounds tough."

  "Yeah, plus if we ever secede again I'm required to fight for the South."

   ...

  Cue everyone's heads whipping around to stare at her and make the :O face. I was laughing/weeping openly while sliding out of my chair.