CAP! S. M'.'SHELTON, USN
4 7
Commaridinq Officer
\ ■
CDR R.'- L:-'SJRAUB> USN
Executive Officer
THE
ADAK
SUN
Published each Monday for all personnel
on Adak by Special Services. Provisions
for NavExos. P-35 .(Rev. July 58) complied
with. Mimeographed at NavSta Adak, Funds
furnished from, no.n-appropriated' sources
at no cost .-to the government. Articles
contained herein are not to be construed j
as representing the official opinion of
the Commanding Officer or the Navy Dep
artment., inasmuch as the Adak Sun is not
an official publication.
; • STAFF i
HI- DAVIS, YN1 055-J or 365 F.MCLUER,FN2 360
. CHAPLAINS 'CORNER - THOUGHT FOR THE DAY
What is man?
The Bible does not answer that question
explicitly, but it says that God has made
man "a little lower than the angels," and
that He has crowned him with glory and
honor and has set him over the works ofj
creation. i
There is about man >an infinite nobility!
which transcends nature. What is this
quality which only man possesses?
I:>can best answer this question by an
example. After the Titanic disastor in
1912, an American paper carried two ill
ustrations of the tragedy.
"One was a drawing of the beautiful
new ship striking the iceberg and crump
ling like an eggshell. Underneath the
picture were these words! The weakness of
Man, the Supremacy of Nature,’ The other
drawing was that of one of the passengers
stepping back to give his place in the;
last lifeboat to a woman with a child.
Undern'eath that picture was the captions
’The Supremacy of Man, the Weakness of
Nature.* The more we learn about our
natures, the more depths of mystery we
discover to bo stuided and experienced.
"Greater love hath no man than this,
that a man lay down his life for his
friends." St. John; 15sl3
WILLIAM E. PARSONS, Jr.
Chaplain_
EDITORIAL
The following words from an address
given by General of the Army, Douglas
MacArthur before the cadets of the Mil
itary Academy at West Point, upon his
acceptance of the Sylvanus Thayer Award
for service to his nation are words to
ponder and as AFTV Channel 8 would ex
press "words to remember"•
"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
point 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." I
The unbelievers will say they are but
worcis, out a slogan, nut 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 rid
icule.
But these are some of the things they
build. They build your -basic character..
They mold you for your future roles as
the custodians of the nation*s defense.
They make you strong enough to know when
you are weak, and brave enough to face
yourself when you are afraid,11 i
"Yours is the profession of arms, the '
will to win, the sure knowledge that in
war there is no subsitute for victory
that if you lose, the nation will be
destroyed, that the very obsession'1 of
your public service must be duty, honor,
country,"
"You are the leaven which binds togeth
er, the entire fabric cf our national
system of defense,,From your ranks -borne
the great captains who hold the nation’s
destiny in their hands the moement the
war tocsin sounds,,.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,"
We think, the above, are words to
remember. .Your .Editors#—.—