I do not know what is true. I do not know the meaning of the universe. But in the midst of doubt, in the collapse of creeds, there is one thing I do not doubt, that no man who lives in the same world with most of us can doubt, and that is that the faith is true and adorable which leads a soldier to throw away his life in obedience to a blindly accepted duty, in a cause which he little understands, in a plan of campaign of which he has little notion, under tactics of which he does not see the use. | |
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. | |
An address on Memorial Day, | |
May 30, 1895, | |
at a Meeting Called by the Graduating Class of Harvard University. | |
The speech is generally known as “The Soldier’s Faith“ | |
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The Soldier’s Faith
July 31, 2011 by kmabarrett
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