Early Youth Is A Baffling

Our American Heritage Is Greater Than Any One Of Us. It Can Express Itself In Very Homely Truths; In The End It Can Lift Up Our Eyes Beyond The Glow In The Sunset Skies.

In This Respect Early Youth Is Exactly Like Old Age; It Is A Time Of Waiting For A Big Trip To An Unknown Destination. The Chief Difference Is That Youth Waits For The Morning Limited And Age Waits For The Night Train

And There Is The Headlight, Shining Far Down The Track, Glinting Off The Steel Rails That, Like All Parallel Lines, Will Meet In Infinity, Which Is After All Where This Train Is Going.

Soldiers Who Had Been In The Army Long Enough To Know What A Bloody Swindle War Really Is Would Begin To Feel That Army Life Was Really Kind Of Fun, As Long As [general Philip] Sheridan Was Up Front.

To Learn To Get Along Without, To Realize That What The World Is Going To Demand Of Us May Be A Good Deal More Important Than What We Are Entitled To Demand Of It - This Is A Hard Lesson.