 FACT: According to the plot line of the movie Martin "Marty" Maher  retired from the Army in the 50s (Eisenhower was President), in  real life Maher retired from the Army in 1928 and stayed at West  Point as a civilian employee in the athletic department and retired  from that in 1946. He died on Jan. 17, 1961, at the age of 84 and is  buried in the West Point cemetery.