Today we toured West Point. What a beautiful place and what a tradition. Makes me want to go back and watch "The Long Grey Line" with Ronald Regan. The first picture shows the dormitories with the chapel on the hill above (the parade ground is in the foreground). West Point sits on a hill with a commanding view of the Hudson (as shown in picture 2). 
Originally being a fort to protect the Hudson river during the Revolutionary war, it was very important to control the river and this was the best spot on the river.T
here is a very large military museum on the grounds that displays uniforms and weapons all the way back to the 1700's. It's very impressive! In the picture, I'm standing next to a replica of the atomic bomb dropped on Japan to end World War II. I had no idea it was so big but I guess that's why they called it the "Fat Boy" bomb.
