Defensive Strategy Never Has Produced

We Are Bound No Longer By The Straitjacket Of The Past And Nowhere Is The Change Greater Than In Our Profession Of Arms. What, You May Well Ask, Will Be The End Of All Of This? I Would Not Know! But I Would Hope That Our Beloved Country Will Drink Deep From The Chalice Of Courage.

On The Fields Of Friendly Strife Are Sown The Seeds That On Other Days, On Other Fields Will Bear The Fruits Of Victory.

I Am Concerned For The Security Of Our Great Nation; Not So Much Because Of Any Threat From Without, But Because Of The Insidious Forces Working From Within.

Today The Guns Are Silent. A Great Tragedy Has Ended. A Great Victory Has Been Won. The Skies No Longer Rain With Death - The Seas Bear Only Commerce - Men Everywhere Walk Upright In The Sunlight. The Entire World Lies Quietly At Peace. The Holy Mission Has Been Completed. And In Reporting This To You, The People, I Speak For The Thousands Of Silent Lips, Forever Stilled Among The Jungles And The Beaches And In The Deep Waters Of The Pacific Which Marked The Way.

I Suppose, In A Way, This Has Become Part Of My Soul. It Is A Symbol Of My Life. Whatever I Have Done That Really Matters, I've Done Wearing It. When The Time Comes, It Will Be In This That I Journey Forth. What Greater Honor Could Come To An American, And A Soldier?