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Duty‚ Honor‚ Outrage: Change to West Point’s mission statement sparks controversy
“Duty‚ Honor‚ Country” has been the motto of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point since 1898. That motto isn’t changing‚ but a decision to take those words out of the school’s lesser-known mission statement is still generating outrage.
Officials at the 222-year-old military academy 60 miles (96 kilometers) north of New York City recently reworked the one-sentence mission statement‚ which is updated periodically‚ usually with little fanfare.
The school’s “Duty‚ Honor‚ Country‚” motto...