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By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Maria Adcock My great-grandfather, Ying Hsing Wen, was the first Chinese cadet at West Point Military Academy and graduated with the Class of 1909. In honor of him... my relatives have set up awards for students in the Foreign Languages Department at West Point. Every year, the elder relatives present the awards at graduation. The first is an award given to a cadet selected by the faculty for demonstrating excellence in the field of East Asian Studies.  The second is a China traveling fellowship awarded to a graduating cadet based on [...]