I address you with neither rancor nor bitterness in the fading twilight of life, with but one purpose in mind: to serve my country.

While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.

I had learned one of the bitter lessons of life: never try to regain the past, the fire will have become ashes.

I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Men since the beginning of time have sought peace.

They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.