![]() ![]() ![]() They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success not to substitute words for actions, nor to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge…the code which these words represent embraces the highest moral laws and will stand the test of any ethics or philosophies ever promulgated for the uplift of mankind. Its requirements are for the things that are right, and its restraints are from the things that are wrong… The focus of General MacArthur’s presentation was the hallmark of the West Point ethos: Duty, Honor, Country. Here is an excerpt of his remarks:ĭuty-Honor-Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying points…they make you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid. It is one of the most eloquent speeches we have ever heard - and we can only imagine what it must have been like to have been in the audience on that remarkable day. ![]() One of our most prominent recollections from our cadet days at West Point is the farewell speech by General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to the Corps of Cadets when he received the Thayer Award on May 12, 1962. ![]()
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