The long gray line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words: Duty, honor, country. Most Succinctly Bred - Página 1por Alex Vernon - 2006 - 100 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
| 1987 - 670 páginas
...Army but of all the services that you now enter. "The Long Gray Line," he said, "has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab,...thundering those magic words: duty, honor, country." Duty, honor, country — the motto of West Point. And like the men and women of West Point and all... | |
| 1987 - 634 páginas
...MacArthur 's words: "The long gray line has never failed us." He said, "Were you to do so, a million ghosts would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words: Duty, honor, country." And then he added: "This does not mean that you're warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all... | |
| United States. Marine Corps. Education Center. Reserve Liaison and Training Branch - 1973 - 312 páginas
...nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. The long, gray line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab,...thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country. This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee No. 2 - 1975 - 326 páginas
...nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. The Long Grey Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab,...those magic words — Duty — Honor — Country. This does not mean that you are war mongers. On the contrary, the soldier, above all other people,... | |
| United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services - 1975 - 1380 páginas
...nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. The Long Grey Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab,...rise from their white crosses thundering those magic word-; — Duty — Honor — Country. This does not mean that you are war mongers. On the contrary,... | |
| United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan) - 1982 - 862 páginas
...Army but of all the services that you now enter. "The Long Gray Line," he said, "has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab,...thundering those magic words: duty, honor, country." Duty, honor, country — the motto of West Point. And like the men and women of West Point and all... | |
| Paul Fussell - 1991 - 842 páginas
...nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. The Long Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab,...from their white crosses thundering those magic words — Duty-Honor-Country. This does not mean that you are war mongers. On the contrary, the soldier,... | |
| Benedict Richard O'Gorman Anderson - 1991 - 244 páginas
...Herrin. 2. Consider, for example, these remarkable tropes: 1. 'The long grey line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and grey, would rise from their white crosses, thundering those magic words: Duty, honour, country. ' 2.... | |
| Barbara Ehrenreich - 1997 - 308 páginas
...warriors who were to serve as the superegos of the young. Were the cadets ever to fail in their duty, "a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in...white crosses, thundering those magic words: Duty, honour, country."20 For imaginative reach, though, no one has matched the German Nationalist science... | |
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