It Is My Earnest Hope, And Indeed

Like The Old Soldier Of The Ballad, I Now Close My Military Career And Just Fade Away, An Old Soldier Who Tried To Do His Duty As God Gave Him The Light To See That Duty. Goodbye.

By Profession I Am A Soldier And Take Great 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 Potentialities Of Death; The Other Embodies Creation And Life.

Life Is A Lively Process Of Becoming.

It Must Be Of The Spirit If We Are To Save The Flesh.

Only Those Are Fit To Live Who Are Not Afraid To Die.