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MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates
Issues at West Point that Concern Us
These are three problems about which many West Point graduates have expressed serious concerns.
Politicization of the Curriculum
Faculty members appear in some cases to advocate racial stereotypes, especially the promotion of Critical Race Theory and DEI which, in our view, negatively impacts morale and unit cohesion.
Erosion of
the Honor Code
The jewel in USMA's crown is at risk at being transformed into a bureaucratic mechanism subject to abuse.
Race and Gender-Based Admissions
West Point must prioritize merit and qualifications in admissions in keeping with the spirit of the recent Supreme Court decision.
News about potentially harmful activities at West Point:
"There's got to be a rescue operation for our military from this woke madness."
Time to Stand Up & Get Informed
Be a part of a growing cadre of graduates, family members, fellow service members and supporters who want to restore West Point to its Military purpose and remove the left-wing ideology harming its mission.
General Douglas MacArthur’s Speech
Given to the Corps of Cadets at West Point
DUTY, HONOR, COUNTRY
….“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.
The unbelievers will say they are but words, but a slogan, but 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 ridicule.
But these are some of the things they do:
- 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.
- They teach you to be proud and unbending in honest failure, but humble and gentle in success;
- not to substitute words for action;
- not to seek the path of comfort, but to face the stress and spur of difficulty and challenge;
- to learn to stand up in the storm, but to have compassion on those who fall;
- to master yourself before you seek to master others;
- to have a heart that is clean, a goal that is high;
- to learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep;
- to reach into the future, yet never neglect the past;
- to be serious, yet never take yourself too seriously;
- to be modest so that you will remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.
- They give you a temper of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions, a freshness of the deep springs of life, a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, an appetite for adventure over love of ease.
- They create in your heart the sense of wonder, the unfailing hope of what next, and the joy and inspiration of life.
- They teach you in this way to be an officer and a gentleman. . . . . .
