Old Soldiers Never Die; They Just Fade

Our Government Has Kept Us In A Perpetual State Of Fear - Kept Us In A Continuous Stampede Of Patriotic Fervor - With The Cry Of Grave National Emergency. Always There Has Been Some Terrible Evil At Home Or Some Monstrous Foreign Power That Was Going To Gobble Us Up If We Did Not Blindly Rally Behind It By Furnishing The Exorbitant Funds Demanded. Yet, In Retrospect, These Disasters Seem Never To Have Happened, Seem Never To Have Been Quite Real.

History Fails To Record A Single Precedent In Which Nations Subject To Moral Decay Have Not Passed Into Political And Economic Decline. There Has Been Either A Spiritual Awakening To Overcome The Moral Lapse Or A Progressive Deterioration Leading To Ultimate National Disaster.

The Great Question Is, Can War Be Outlawed From The World? If So, It Would Mark The Greatest Advance In Civilization Since The Sermon On The Mount.

Worry, Doubt, Fear And Despair Are The Enemies Which Slowly Bring Us Down To The Ground And Turn Us To Dust Before We Die.

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?