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Assignments for May 11th - 18th

Copy the dictation “Old Soldiers” (below) on loose-leaf paper and in your BEST handwriting. Take your time and do this well--only cursive, no printing.

Review your notes on verbals again.

Analyze AND chart the following sentences on a separate piece of notebook paper (use pencil). These might challenge you, do the best you can. We will discuss and diagram these in our Zoom class on Thursday May 14th.

1. Joining the Army, before the turn of the century, was the fulfilling of all of my boyish hopes and dreams.

2. The old soldier tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.

3. Closing my years of military service brings me feelings of great pride.

Old Soldiers

Mr. President, Mr. Speaker, and Distinguished Members of the Congress:

I stand on this rostrum with a sense of deep humility and great pride – humility in the wake of those great American architects of our history who have stood here before me; pride in the reflection that this forum of legislative debate represents human liberty in the purest form yet devised. Here are centered the hopes and aspirations and faith of the entire human race.

I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away."

And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty.

Good Bye.

-Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Farewell Speech to Congress, April 19, 1951.