Always There Has Been Some Terrible Evil

By Profession I Am A Soldier And Take Pride In That Fact. But I Am Prouder - Infinitely Prouder - To Be A Father. A Soldier Destroys In Order To Build; The Father Only Builds, Never Destroys. The One Has The Potentiality Of Death; The Other Embodies Creation And Life. And While The Hordes Of Death Are Mighty, The Battalions Of Life Are Mightier Still. It Is My Hope That My Son, When I Am Gone, Will Remember Me Not From The Battle Field But In The Home Repeating With Him Our Simple Daily Prayer, Our Father Who Art In Heaven.

It Seems Strangely Difficult For Some To Realize That Here In Asia Is Where The Communist Conspirators Have Elected To Make Their Play For Global Conquest, And That We Have Joined The Issue Thus Raised On The Battlefield; That Here We Fight Europe's War With Arms While The Diplomats There Still Fight It With Words; That If We Lose The War To Communism In Asia The Fall Of Europe Is Inevitable, Win It And Europe Most Probably Would Avoid War And Yet Preserve Freedom. As You Pointed Out, We Must Win. There Is No Substitute For Victory.

Here Are Centered The Hopes And Aspirations And Faith Of The Entire Human Race. I Do Not Stand Here As Advocate For Any Partisan Cause, For The Issues Are Fundamental And Reach Quite Beyond The Realm Of Partisan Consideration. They Must Be Resolved On The Highest Plane Of National Interest If Our Course Is To Prove Sound And Our Future Protected. I Trust, Therefore, That You Will Do Me The Justice Of Receiving That Which I Have To Say As Solely Expressing The Considered Viewpoint Of A Fellow American.

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?

Are We Going To Continue To Yield Personal Liberties And Community Autonomy To The Steady Inexplicable Centralization All Political Power Or Restore The Republic To Constitutional Direction, Regain Our Personal Liberties And Reassume The Individual State's Primary Responsibility And Authority In The Conduct Of Local Affairs? Are We Going To Permit A Continuing Decline In Public And Private Morality Or Re-establish High Ethical Standards As The Means Of Regaining A Diminishing Faith In The Integrity Of Our Public And Private Institutions?