duty honor country
douglas macarthur
as i the hotel this morning, a doorman asked me, “ could fail to be deeply moved by such a tribute as this[thayer a from a profession i have served so long, and a people i have loved so reat moral code——the code of conduct and chivalry of those uard this beloved land of culture and ancient descent. that is the animation of this medallion. for all eyes and for all time, it is an expression of the ethics of the american soldier. that i should be integrated in this ht to be, points: to build courage e seems to fail; to regain faith ination, nor that brilliance of metaphor to tell you all that they mean. the unbelievers an, but a flamboyant phrase. every pedant, every demagogue, every cynic, every hypocrite, every troublemaker, and i am sorry to say, some others of an entirely different character, rade them even to the extent of mockery and ridicule.
but these are some of the things they do. they build your basic character. they mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation's defense. they make you strong enough to knoh to face yourself in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success; not to substitute e; to learn to stand up in the storm but to have compassion on those oal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget holect the past; to be serious yet never to take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you reatness, the open mind of true th. they give you a temper of the ination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life, a temperamental predom inance of courage over timidity, of an appetite for adventure over love of ease. they create in your heart the sense of hope of entleman.
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