○ thayer award acceptance address ○
but these are some of the things they do. they build your basic character. they mold you for your future roles as the custodians of the nation's defense. they make you strong enough to know when you are weak, and brave enough to face yourself when you are afraid. they teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success; not to substitute words for actions, not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge; to learn to stand up in the storm but to have compassion on those who fall; to master yourself before you seek to master others; to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high; to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; to reach into the future yet never neglect the past; to be serious yet never to take yourself too seriously; to be modest so that you will remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength. they give you a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life, a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of an appetite for adventure over love of ease. they create in your heart the sense of wonder, the unfailing hope of what next, and the joy and inspiration of life. they teach you in this way to be an officer and a gentleman.
and what sort of soldiers are those you are to lead? are they reliable? are they brave? are they capable of victory? their story is known to all of you. it is the story of the american man-at-arms. my estimate of him was formed on the battlefield many, many years ago, and has never changed. i regarded him then as i regard him now -- as one of the world's noblest figures, not only as one of the finest military characters, but also as one of the most stainless. his name and fame are the
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