United States Military Academy West Point - Howitzer Yearbook (West Point, NY)

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F rn E I9 IZ 1'-p I-IOWITZER H that this be true, for among the immutable laws which rule the universe is one which says that when growth shall cease dissolution shall begin. Let us be thankful that our honored dead left to us a heritage not of luxury or ease but of toil and sacrifice. Let us be thankful that when they left to us a goal unattainable by mortal man they also left us traditions and records beyond all price, from which, in our dark hours and days of anxious foreboding, we may draw courage and strength of purpose to carry on the unfinished work which they bequeathed to us. Let us re- joice that the work was unfinished, that it can never be finished. To them shall be the glory forever of choosing ideals which can never die, but will grow to the end of time. Our destiny it is to strengthen what they made strong, to follow the up-hill road where they pointed the way, to march forward and up- ward toward the crest where they are beckoning with phantom hands. A strong man's inborn right they left to us, the right to perpetuate the fame they won for their Alma hlater, to keep brightly burnished the shield whereon their record is written g to see that the line which we may write upon that shield stands out as boldly, cleanly as the lines above. Last of all, they left to us the duty of keeping alive the spirit they created and of transmitting it, purer and stronger as the years pass by. It is the realization of this solemn duty that sobers and ha1'dens the man, that causes him to see that he cannot fail the trust he accepted when he entered the service. It is this thought that teaches him that his value as a man will be weighed in terms of his work, that makes known to him the duty of service whose reward is not measured by material things but is known only in the heart of the servant. If to uphold this plea shall call for sacrifice, for reverence of our honored dead, for a respect and love of our Alma Blaterg for the sake of our own honor, let us make such sac- rifice, not counting it as such but rather as a privilege, reckoning it not as a price we pay, but as a gift to us. Let us remember that though Mthe paths of glory lead but to the grave, if, when the sun is low in the VVest and the light grows dim, we can look calmly back over the years and see a path straight and clean, unscarred by act or weakness or dishonor, a path along which is visible only evidence of a fight well fought, a faith well kept and a race well won, we may know that by the years of that service our life has justified itself, that through our keeping the faith with our dead we have kept faith with ourselves, with the Corps, with our Country, and with God. V 141

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