l***y
发帖数: 4671 | 1 第一次听他的演讲。
I am closing my fifty-two years of military service. When I joined the
army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all my
boyish hopes and dreams.
The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the
plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but
I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barracks ballads of
that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers never die; they
just fade away.
And like the old soldier of that 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. Good-by. |
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