CAPT. WALTER F. HENRY
Commanding Officer
CDR. WESLEY E. SKILL
Executive Officer
ADAK
SUN
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EDITING -STAF-F .
Hi T. DAVIS, YN1 GEORGE MILLS, J03
055J or 365__125,
CHAPLAIN'S—CORNER
f OUR COUNTRY'S '''GREATEST USED. '.'And
Samuel said unto all Israel, Behold, I
have hearkened unto yaur voice in all
that ye said unto me, and have made a
King over you*
And now, behold, the King walketh
before you: and lam old and gray -'head
ed; and behold, my sons are with you:
and I have walked before you from my
childhood unto this day.
• Behold, here I am: Witness against
me before the Lord, and before his an
ointed; - •
WHOSE OX HAVE I TAKEN? lot WHOSE ASS
HAVE I TAKEN? ur WHOM HAVHr I -OE rRAUDED?
WHOM HAVE I OPPRESSED? ottbf .WHOSE. -HAND
HAVE’ I RECEIVED ART BRIBE; TO 'BLiMD MBE
EYES THEREWITH? AND I WILL RESTORE IT
TO YOU. And they said* THOU HAST MOT
DEFRAUDED US, NOR OPPRESSED IJS NEITHER
HAST| '*T.HOy TAKEN' OUGHT OF ANY MANVS
HAND."' • ' X
HWhere national character ceases to
be upheld, a nation may foe‘-.regarded as
next to lost. ’Where it ceases 'to' .est
eem and to practice tfce virtues of
truthfulness, honesty, inr.oor:*tv, and
justice,' it dona/ live*
And when, the time---arrives' in' any coun
try when wealth has "so' corrupted, or
pleasure so depraved, or faction so
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infatuated tne people, tnat nonor,
order, obedience, virtue and loyalty
have seemingly become things of the
past; then, amid the darkness, when
honest men-—are groping ’about and
feeling for each other’s hands, their
only remaining hope will be in the re
storation and elevation of Individual
Character; for by that alone can a
nation be saved; and if character is
irrecoverably lost, then indeed there *
will be nothing left worth saving,”
(Character” - by Samuel Smiles )
PRAYER
"GOD SEND US MEN ALERT AND QUICK
HIS LOFTY PRECEPTS TO TRANSLATE,
UNTIL THE LAWS OF CHRIST BECOME
THE LAWS AND HABITS OF THE STATE.
GOP SEND {IS MEM OF STEADFAST WILL,
PATIENT, COURAGEOUS,. STRONG AND TRUE:
WITH VISION-CLEAR AND MIND EQUIPPED,
HIS WILL TO LEARN, HIS WORK TO DO.
GOD SEND US MEN WITH Hf&RTSj^ABLAZE,
ALL TRUTH TO LOVE, ALL WRONG TO HATE:
THESE ARE THE PATRIOTS NATIONS .'ME]$BS,
THESE ARE THE BULWARKS QF THE STATE.”
(F. J. Gillman)
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