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Article: Changing with the times The US Military Academy links the Army's tradition-filled past to its nontraditional future
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 19, 1995
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Mark Feeney is editor of Focus.
WEST POINT, N.Y. -- During the Revolutionary War, George
Washington called it "the most important post in America."
In Washington's day, West Point's importance came from a chain
stretched across the Hudson River to prevent British warships from
sailing up to Albany and splitting the colonies in two. Today, as it
has been since 1802, West Point is home to the United States Military
Academy, a different but no less vital chain, one that links the
Army's tradition-filled past to an increasingly nontraditional
future.
The campus' Gothic architecture and gray stone bespeak continuity.
Yet throughout West Point's history change has been a constant, and
rarely ...