Word: brightly
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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This generation is to vindicate our national history, not our national history to vindicate this generation. The bright memory of victory has never up-born one people in the hour of its martial weakness...
...bygone years how well we have loved to bedeck them, the festive sailors, the insolent Panamas, with bright ribbons colored--like the Imperial flag--of red, white and black. They have been the resting place on which we could drape our honors. They have been wound with the ribboned laurels of our fame. They have served as heralds to the whole world of our success...
Inspection is the next thing to heaven if cleanliness is next to Godliness. The glorified soldiers might be pardoned a desire to flap their sprouting wings and fly away, bright gun and all, in the extasy of their scrubbed perfection. But instead they must wait in agony at attention while one man after another is damned with faint praise, or blasted with none...
...American people today have not yet waked up to the real meaning of the flag. For nearly half a century we have rested in comparative ease and luxury. Save for the brief campaigns of the Spanish War, the colors have been used largely as part of the bright dress of holiday rejoicings, of national anniversaries and expositions. They have not, in the thoughts of the present generation, been closely associated with the blood and grime of battlefields, with the sort of self-sacrifice of which a man offers the best that he has--his life...
...selection and notification of those men who are chosen to attend the senior training camps relieves the embarrassment of uncertainty for all applicants. Those fortunate sons of Ares who are permitted to enter into training have before them the bright prospect of a lieutenant's bars to incite them to their best. They should remember that they are, presumably at least, the chosen among the elect, and that if they in any way fail of the opportunity which has been offered them, they are working indirectly an injustice to other men who were rejected that they might be chosen...