West Point’s new library: “A repository of lessons learned”

WEST POINT – “I cannot live without books”, Thomas Jefferson said, to John Adams, in 1815. When Jefferson envisioned the U.S. Military Academy, he clearly understood one concept about the future. During the dedication ceremony for the new cadet library that bears the name of the author of the Declaration of Independence, and the nation’s third president, Brig. Gen. Patrick Finnegan, Dean of the Academic Board, recalled Jefferson’s wisdom and words.