In War There Is No

The Soldier, Above All Other Men, Is Required To Practice The Greatest Act Of Religious Training - Sacrifice.

Are We Going To Continue To Yield Personal Liberties And Community Autonomy To The Steady Inexplicable Centralization All Political Power Or Restore The Republic To Constitutional Direction, Regain Our Personal Liberties And Reassume The Individual State's Primary Responsibility And Authority In The Conduct Of Local Affairs? Are We Going To Permit A Continuing Decline In Public And Private Morality Or Re-establish High Ethical Standards As The Means Of Regaining A Diminishing Faith In The Integrity Of Our Public And Private Institutions?

The World Has Turned Over Many Times Since I Took The Oath On The Plain At West Point?but I Still Remember The Refrain Of One Of The Most Popular Ballads Of That Day Which Proclaimed Most Proudly That Old Soldiers Never Die; They Just Fade Away.

Nobody Grows Old By Merely Living A Number Of Years. People Grow Old Only By Deserting Their Ideals. Years May Wrinkle The Skin, But To Give Up Interest Wrinkles The Soul. Worry, Doubt, Self-distrust, Fear And Despair; These Are The Long, Long Years That Bow The Head And Turn The Growing Spirit Back To Dust. Whatever Your Years, There Is In Every Being's Heart The Love Of Wonder, The Undaunted Challenge Of Events, The Unfailing Childlike Appetite For What Next, And The Joy And The Game Of Life.

It Is My Earnest Hope, And Indeed The Hope Of All Mankind, That From This Solemn Occasion A Better World Shall Emerge Out Of The Blood And Carnage Of The Past...