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MacArthur Society of West Point Graduates
M I S S I O N
To preserve, defend, and advocate for West Point's
history, purpose, and principles of Duty, Honor, Country.
Our Priorities
Issues which many West Point graduates have expressed serious concerns.
- Merit-based admissions. Cadets should be admitted on demonstrated merit, not quotas, or so-called “goals.” Replace race, ethnicity, gender or any other identity based admissions criteria with improved standards. Using race, especially, as an admissions factor disadvantages other groups, reinforces stereotypes, and — in our view — conflicts with the 14th Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause and the 5th Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
- Leadership over demographics. We hold that unit combat effectiveness is a function of leadership, not racial composition — and that no credible evidence shows otherwise.
- Never again allow a favorable treatment of any facet of Cultural Marxism. This stipulates the end to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) instruction or implementation as well as any use of Critical Race Theory (CRT), including encouraging cadets to apply it “…as one of many analytical lenses that can be employed to examine institutions.”
- Transparency. West Point’s leadership must comply fully and promptly with Federal FOIA obligations. Attempts to block access to information or circumvent Executive Orders have resulted in humiliating situations to include lawsuits, forcing West Point to tell the truth.
- A resolute Honor Code. The Code should be a firm standard, not an “aspirational” one.
- One standard for all cadets. We are concerned that athletes are held to different standards in admissions, training, and post-graduation service obligations than the rest of the Corps of Cadets.
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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. . . . . .
