Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
People grow old only by deserting their ideals, Macarthur had written. Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up interest wrinkles the soul. You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear as young as your hope as old as your despair. In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, so long are you young. When your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and then only, are you grown old. And then, indeed as the ballad says, you just fade away.
Erickson gave an address to the group gathered for the last time in Mankato that he described as very emotional. He told the group how gratifying it was to see all the young people, there to help and to learn. We were once many now we are so few, ... 'Old soldiers never die they just fade away.' I declare this unit disbanded.
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