Optimism Is Denial, So Face

Old Soldiers Never Die; They Just Fade Away.

The Hated System Of Land Tenure, So Contributory To General Unrest In Asia, Has Been Abolished. Every Farmer Is Now Accorded The Right And Dignity Of Ownership Of The Land He Long Has Tilled.

We Have Known The Bitterness Of Defeat And The Exultation Of Triumph, And From Both We Have Learned There Can Be No Turning Back. We Must Go Forward To Preserve In Peace What We Won In War. A New Era Is Upon Us. Even The Lesson Of Victory Itself Brings With It Profound Concern, Both For Our Future Security And The Survival Of Civilization. The Destructiveness Of The War Potential, Through Progressive Advances In Scientific Discovery, Has In Fact Now Reached A Point Which Revises The Traditional Concepts Of War.

I Had Learned One Of The Bitter Lessons Of Life: Never Try To Regain The Past, The Fire Will Have Become Ashes.

Build Me A Son, O Lord, Who Will Be Strong Enough To Know When He Is Weak, And Brave Enough To Face Himself When He Is Afraid, One Who Will Be Proud And Unbending In Honest Defeat, And Humble And Gentle In Victory.