![]() ![]() Their memory is one of wonderous beauty, watered by tears and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday. They have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. My days of old have vanished tone and tint. The shadows are lengthening for me, the twilight is here. Were you to do so, a million ghosts would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words Duty. ![]() ![]() From your ranks come the great captains who hold the nation’s destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. They are your rallying points to build courage when courage seems to fail to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith to create hope when hope becomes forlorn., You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our national system of defense. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. Country Inscribed on these walls are excerpts from General MacArthur’s last address to the Corp of Cadets,, Duty. ![]()
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