![]() ![]() Otherwise you would not be here awaiting the diplomas which certify your fitness to be naval officers of the United States. Knowledge of these things I must assume you have learned in the course of your term at the Academy. ![]() You should, and I assume you do, know more about them than I can know and are fully appreciative of their importance and the grave consequences with which the manner of your performance of these duties is involved. These things you have learned from your own studies and from your instructors who have participated in them. I am not going to dilate on the duties and responsibilities that fall upon you in war and in peace. I am not going to give you a lecture on the uniqueness of your position as the first line of the Nation's defense against aggression. I am not going to talk to you of the many heroic examples that have been set by those who in past years have received their commissions on occasions such as this. ![]()
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