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  • This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war.

    Sylvanus Thayer Award Acceptance Address, delivered 12 May 1962, West Point, NY
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