West Point Story (not Gene Roddenberry's TV show)

Newsvine - West Point Thesis Challenges Gay Policy As someone who has worked in archaeology all over the perimeter of West Point over the last 20 years (both sides of the river) in archaeology for the US government (and elsewhere) I could not agree more strongly. We are now admitting many Americans to West Point, i.e., native Americans (though tragically "12 Feathers" a student was found dead on the grounds) and even the football field is named after the "Buffalo Soldiers", the African American troops who served in many of the western outposts as America grew "from sea to shining sea". The changes in the military I've seen, i.e., initial survey of Fort Drum, NY for the relocation of the 10th Mountain Division, back when A-10's flew to there almost daily, have shown positively from the days of Sackett's Harbor, when over 20 men were hung for infractions as simple as falling asleep at guard duty at the huge Lake Ontario military complex in the War of 1812, where Zebulon Pike is buried, blown up invading present day Toronto, Canada. Many of the workers in the West Point Foundry, where cannons and shells were made were smuggled under alias from Great Britain. Surely their expertise was more important than their sexual history, if even surmised, and greatly helped the winning of the Civil War.