By Charlie Laverty Just a few minutes drive from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., lies the modest village of Salisbury Mills. But its remembrance of the deeds of its men at war is far from modest: At the junction of two roads that course through the village stands a handsome 30-foot-high granite monument to its veterans of the War of 1812 and the Civil War. The western face of the…