在距离纽约市约50英里的北部,风景如画的哈德逊河谷西岸,有一大片用灰色花岗岩石头垒砌成的建筑楼群,其间镶嵌着几块大小不一的绿茵草坪和几尊栩栩如生的青铜雕像,时不时会出现一列列身着灰色制服或迷彩服、唱着军歌、迈着整齐步伐的队伍。这里就是闻名遐迩的,素有“美国将军的摇篮”之称的著名军事院校——美国西点军校。许多美军名将如格兰特、罗伯特·李、艾森豪威尔、巴顿、麦克阿瑟、布莱德利等均是该校的毕业生。 About 50 miles north of New York City, on the west bank of the picturesque Hudson Valley, there is a massive building block made of gray granite stones studded with several green lawns of various sizes and lifelike Bronze statues, from time to time there will be a column wearing a gray uniform or camouflage uniforms, singing military songs, marching team of neat pace. Here is the world famous, known as “the cradle of the United States General ” said the famous military academy - the United States West Point Military Academy. Many U.S. military chiefs such as Grant, Robert Lee, Eisenhower, Barton, MacArthur, Bradley and others are graduates of the school.