United States Merchant Marine Academy Kings Point - Midships Yearbook

“AT THE LANDFALLS OF OUR " Our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal " — so spoke Lincoln many years ago on a battle-scarred hill at Gettysburg. In these words are contained the suffer- ing and hardship, the courage and devotion of a new people determined to build in the western world a better way of life for themselves and to achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace with all nations. Today the United States Merchant Marine, build- ing on the heritage of the founding fathers, emulat- ing their dauntless spirit, has set as its goal the carrying of food and materials for the economic resurrection of a war torn world. It is a task of stag- gering proportions, but with confidence in our men of the Merchant Marine, with the unbounded deter- mination of a free and willing people, we will gain the inevitable triumph. We accept in the American tradition the challenge to carry on. ”