每年六月,举世闻名的西点军校都要在一座军官雕像面前举行一次隆重的毕业典礼,这座雕像的基座上刻着这样一行简单的铭文:塞耶上校 西点军校之父。曲折的少年之旅 1785年6月9日,西尔韦纳斯·塞耶出生在美国马萨诸塞州布伦特里一个普普通通的农夫家庭。父亲纳撒尼尔·塞耶的正直、俭朴以及母亲朵克丝·塞耶的温柔、善良,从小就培养了西尔韦纳斯的礼貌、谦 Every June, the world-famous West Point military academy holds a grand graduation ceremony in front of a statue of an officer engraved with a simple inscription on the base of the statue: Captain Sey, the father of West Point. Twists and turns of juvenile tour On June 9, 1785, Sylvieus Seyer was born in an ordinary family of farmers in Braintree, Massachusetts. Father Nathaniel Seyer’s integrity, frugality, and the tenderness and kindness of his mother, Dukes Seyer, trained Sylvnius’s politeness,