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Posted: 4/3/2013 2:38:24 AM EST
The headstone of celebrated Army football coach Earl “Red” Blaik is seen at the West Point Cemetery on Friday, March 22, 2013, in West Point, N.Y. Graves of soldiers from every U.S. war make this small plot of the land the most hallowed ground on the nation's the most venerable military academy. And after 196 years and more than 8,000 souls, it's close to full. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Posted: 4/3/2013 2:38:24 AM EST
The U.S. Military Academy Band performs during a burial service at the West Point Cemetery on Friday, March 22, 2013, in West Point, N.Y. The service was for Maj. Gen. Robert Strong and wife Virginia Strong. Graves of soldiers from every U.S. war make this small plot of the land the most hallowed ground on the nation's the most venerable military academy. And after 196 years and more than 8,000 souls, it's close to full. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Posted: 4/3/2013 2:38:24 AM EST
Kathleen Silvia, director of the West Point Cemetery, walks in the cemetery on Friday, March 22, 2013, in West Point, N.Y. Graves of soldiers from every U.S. war make this small plot of the land the most hallowed ground on the nation's the most venerable military academy. And after 196 years and more than 8,000 souls, it's close to full. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Posted: 4/3/2013 2:38:24 AM EST
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Honor Guard members Len Werner, left, and Jared Lacovara stand during a burial service at the West Point Cemetery on Friday, March 22, 2013, in West Point, N.Y. The service was for Maj. Gen. Robert Strong and wife Virginia Strong. Graves of soldiers from every U.S. war make this small plot of the land the most hallowed ground on the nation's the most venerable military academy. And after 196 years and more than 8,000 souls, it's close to full. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Posted: 4/3/2013 2:38:24 AM EST
Col. Cindy Jebb, right, presents a flag to David Strong during a burial service at the West Point Cemetery on Friday, March 22, 2013, in West Point, N.Y. The service was for Strong's parents Maj. Gen. Robert Strong and Virginia Strong. Graves of soldiers from every U.S. war make this small plot of the land the most hallowed ground on the nation's the most venerable military academy. And after 196 years and more than 8,000 souls, it's close to full. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Posted: 4/3/2013 2:38:24 AM EST
Steve Denardis of the Army Corps. of Engineers walks in the West Point Cemetery on his lunch break on Friday, March 22, 2013, in West Point, N.Y. Graves of soldiers from every U.S. war make this small plot of the land the most hallowed ground on the nation's the most venerable military academy. And after 196 years and more than 8,000 souls, it's close to full. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Posted: 4/3/2013 2:38:24 AM EST
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Base Honor Guard members fold a flag during a burial service at the West Point Cemetery on Friday, March 22, 2013, in West Point, N.Y. The service was for Maj. Gen. Robert Strong and wife Virginia Strong. Graves of soldiers from every U.S. war make this small plot of the land the most hallowed ground on the nation's the most venerable military academy. And after 196 years and more than 8,000 souls, it's close to full. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Posted: 4/3/2013 2:38:24 AM EST
U.S. Military Academy Band members are reflected in a mace during a burial ceremony at West Point Cemetery on Friday, March 22, 2013, in West Point, N.Y. The service was for Maj. Gen. Robert Strong and wife Virginia Strong.Graves of soldiers from every U.S. war make this small plot of the land the most hallowed ground on the nation's the most venerable military academy. And after 196 years and more than 8,000 souls, it's close to full. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Posted: 4/3/2013 2:38:24 AM EST
Maj. Gen. George Custer's grave is seen at the West Point Cemetery on Friday, March 22, 2013, in West Point, N.Y. Graves of soldiers from every U.S. war make this small plot of the land the most hallowed ground on the nation's the most venerable military academy. And after 196 years and more than 8,000 souls, it's close to full. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Posted: 4/3/2013 2:38:24 AM EST
The U.S. Military Academy Band performs during a burial service at the West Point Cemetery on Friday, March 22, 2013, in West Point, N.Y. The service was for Maj. Gen. Robert Strong and wife Virginia Strong. Graves of soldiers from every U.S. war make this small plot of the land the most hallowed ground on the nation's the most venerable military academy. And after 196 years and more than 8,000 souls, it's close to full. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Posted: 4/3/2013 2:38:24 AM EST
Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst Honor Guard members fold a flag during a burial service at the West Point Cemetery on Friday, March 22, 2013, in West Point, N.Y. The service was for Maj. Gen. Robert Strong and wife Virginia Strong. Graves of soldiers from every U.S. war make this small plot of the land the most hallowed ground on the nation's the most venerable military academy. And after 196 years and more than 8,000 souls, it's close to full. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)
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Posted: 4/1/2013 5:03:22 PM EST
An American flag is held by West Point cadets in the Yankee Stadium outfield prior to the start of a baseball game against the Boston Red Sox, Monday, April 1, 2013 in New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Posted: 2/28/2013 1:23:29 PM EST
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, commander of the allied forces in Operation Desert Storm, is shown in this 1991 photo. Schwarzkopf, who rose to fame as the leader of the lightning quick dismantling of Saddam Hussein's forces in the first Gulf War, is laid to rest at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point Thursday Feb. 28, 2013. (AP Photo)
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Posted: 2/16/2013 2:33:32 PM EST
FILE - In this Monday, Feb. 11, 2013 file photo, New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan speaks to the press in his residence. Dolan said he was as startled as the rest of the world about Pope Benedict XVI's announcement that he will resign later this month due to failing health. Popes are also expected to be multilingual, or to at minimum speak Italian fluently. Dolan, considered to have one of the highest profiles in the U.S. church, speaks only halting Italian and a little Spanish, but no French or Latin. He led the North American Seminary in Rome, a kind of West Point for American priests, but has never worked in a Vatican office. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)
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Posted: 12/24/2012 1:23:19 PM EST
This Dec. 20, 2012 photo shows the label inside the military tunic originally worn by 1971 West Point graduate Joseph Francis Albano. When Mary Helen Taft picked up the jacket on consignment about 20 years ago, she had thought it was an elaborate costume. When the story of an 80-year-old military tunic found among Superstorm Sandy debris at the Jersey Shore made national headlines, Taft realized the item in her closet was not just a run-of-the-mill coat. (AP Photo/Genevieve Ross)
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Posted: 12/24/2012 1:23:19 PM EST
This Dec. 20, 2012 photo shows a detail of the military tunic originally worn by 1971 West Point graduate Joseph Francis Albano. When Mary Helen Taft picked up the jacket on consignment about 20 years ago, she had thought it was an elaborate costume. When the story of an 80-year-old military tunic found among Superstorm Sandy debris at the Jersey Shore made national headlines, Taft realized the item in her closet was not just a run-of-the-mill coat. (AP Photo/Genevieve Ross)
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Posted: 12/24/2012 1:23:19 PM EST
In this Dec. 20, 2012 photo, Mary Helen Taft displays a military jacket outside her home in Zimmerman, Minn. She bought the jacket at a consignment shop about 20 years ago, and the story of a similar jacket found in the debris of Superstorm Sandy prompted her to learn more about this jacket's past. With the help of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Taft has learned that the 80-year-old tunic was once worn by 1971 West Point graduate Joseph Francis Albano. (AP Photo/Genevieve Ross)
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Posted: 12/24/2012 1:23:19 PM EST
In this Dec. 20, 2012 photo, Mary Helen Taft hold up a military jacket at her home in Zimmerman, Minn. She bought the jacket at a consignment shop about 20 years ago, and the story of a similar jacket found in the debris of Superstorm Sandy prompted her to learn more about this jacket's past. With the help of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Taft has learned that the 80-year-old tunic was once worn by 1971 West Point graduate Joseph Francis Albano. (AP Photo/Genevieve Ross)
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Posted: 12/1/2012 4:18:51 PM EST
In this photo provided by Amanda Fulton, brides Penelope Gnesin, seated, and Brenda Sue Fulton, a West Point graduate, hold hands during their wedding, Saturday, Dec. 1, 2012, at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y. New York legalized same-sex marriage last year, just months before President Barack Obama lifted the policy prohibiting openly gay people from serving in the military. The ceremony is the second same-sex wedding at West Point. Last weekend, two of Fulton's friends got married in a different campus chapel. (AP Photo/Amanda Fulton)
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Posted: 11/30/2012 5:43:40 AM EST
A Nov. 28, 2012 photo made in Onacock, Va., shows a West Point uniform jacket belonging to the late Chester deGavre that was found at a New Jersey beach by Donna Gugger of Holland, Pa. after Superstorm Sandy. On Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2012, Gugger returned the jacket to deGavre's widow Teresa at her home near Onancock, Va. (AP Photo/Eastern Shore News, Malissa Watterson) NO SALES
