A lead box believed to have been placed in the base of a West Point monument by cadets almost two centuries ago yielded no bombshells when unsealed during a livestreamed event, just silt
The highly anticipated opening of a lead box believed to have been placed in the base of a West Point monument by cadets almost two centuries ago yielded little more than gray silt when unsealed during a livestreamed event Monday.
“A little disappointed. We built up to this quite a bit,” Paul Hudson, West Point archeologist, said after the event. “And I’ll tell you the truth, that was the last outcome that I expected with all the trouble that they went to create that box, put it in the monument.”The box, which is about a cubic foot, was discovered in May during the restoration of a monument honoring Revolutionary War hero Thaddeus Kosciuszko.
“I was told yesterday that if we had a sense of humor, we would have asked Mr. Rivera to be up here with us,” Gen. Shane Reeves, the academy’s academic dean, told the crowd of cadets, officers and civilians. A committee of five cadets that included 1829 graduate Robert E. Lee, the future Confederate general, was involved with the dedication of the monument.
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