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Gen. Douglas MacArthur - Duty, Honor, Country.

They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success; not to
substitute words for action; not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty
and challenge; to learn to stand up in the storm, but to have compassion on those who fall; to master
yourself before you seek to master others; to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to
laugh, yet never forget how to weep; to reach into the future, yet never neglect the past; to be serious,
yet never take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simplicity of true
greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.

They give you a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of
the deep springs of life, a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, an appetite for
adventure over love of ease.

They create in your heart the sense of wonder, the unfailing hope of what next, and the joy and
inspiration of life. They teach you in this way to be an officer and a gentleman.

And what sort of soldiers are those you are to lead? Are they reliable? Are they brave? Are they capable
of victory?

Their story is known to all of you. It is the story of the American man at arms. My estimate of him was
formed on the battlefield many, many years ago, and has never changed. I regarded him then, as I regard
him now, as one of the world's noblest figures; not only as one of the finest military characters, but also
as one of the most stainless.

His name and fame are the birthright of every American citizen. In his youth and strength, his love and
loyalty, he gave all that mortality can give. He needs no eulogy from me, or from any other man. He has
written his own history and written it in red on his enemy's breast.

But when I think of his patience under adversity, of his courage under fire, and of his modesty in victory, I
am filled with an emotion of admiration I cannot put into words. He belongs to history as furnishing one
of the greatest examples of successful patriotism. He belongs to posterity as the instructor of future
generations in the principles of liberty and freedom. He belongs to the present, to us, by his virtues and
by his achievements. º

In twenty campaigns, on a hundred battlefields, around a thousand campfires, I have witnessed that
enduring fortitude, that patriotic self-abnegation, and that invincible determination which have carved
his statue in the hearts of his people. From one end of the world to the other, he has drained deep the
chalice of courage.

As I listened to those songs, in memory's eye I could see those staggering columns of the First World
War, bending under soggy packs on many a weary march, from dripping dusk to drizzling dawn, slogging
ankle-deep through the mire of shell-pocked roads, to form grimly for the attack, blue-lipped, covered
with sludge and mud, chilled by the wind and rain, driving home to their objective, and for many, to the
judgment seat of God.

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