Duty Honor Country - Audio (P04 - 06)

Duty，//Honor，//Country: //Those /three hallowed words //reverently dictate //what you ought to be，//what you can be，//what you will be. ///




They are your /rallying points://




to build courage /when courage seems to fail; //




to regain /faith /when there seems to be little cause for faith; //




to create hope /when hope becomes /forlorn. //




Unhappily，//I possess //neither that /eloquence of diction，//




that /poetry of imagination，//




nor that /brilliance of metaphor//




to tell you /all that they mean. //




The unbelievers /will say they are but words，//but a slogan，//but a flamboyant phrase. //




Every pedant，//every demagogue，//every cynic，//every hypocrite，//every troublemaker，//




and I am /sorry to say，/some others of an entirely different character，//




will try /to downgrade them /even to the extent /of mockery /and ridicule. ///