"O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done;
The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won;
The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting,
While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring:
But O heart! heart! heart!
O the bleeding drops of red,
Where on the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead.
O Captain! my Captain! rise up and hear the bells;
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon’d wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning;
Here Captain! dear father!
This arm beneath your head;
It is some dream that on the deck,
You’ve fallen cold and dead.
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still;
My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will;
The ship is anchor’d safe and sound, its voyage closed and done;
From fearful trip, the victor ship, comes in with object won;
Exult, O shores, and ring, O bells!
But I, with mournful tread,
Walk the deck my Captain lies,
Fallen cold and dead"

-Walt Whitman

"And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."

-John F. Kennedy

"I regret that I have but one life to give for my country."

-Nathaniel Hale

"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?"

-Robert F. Kennedy

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing."

-Patton

"Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem. How far I shall succeed in gratifying this ambition, is yet to be developed."

-Abraham Lincoln


"Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."

-George Washington


Duty Honor Courage
Patriotism Loyalty Respect
Discipline Tradition Obligation
Righteousness


These words go beyond their definitions. They have and will continue to mold me into one day the man I hope to be. They speak to me, and I hope that I can uphold the slef promise I have to fulfill these words.

- KYLE G