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God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless.

— Chester W. Nimitz Appended to a variant of the Serenity Prayer in The Armed Forces Prayer Book (1951)

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Through the skill and devotion to duty of their armed forces of all branches in the Midway area our citizens can now rejoice that a momentous victory is in the making.

Pearl Harbor has now been partially avenged.

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It is to the everlasting honor and glory of our submarine personnel that they never failed us in our days of peril.

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.

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