Excerpt from Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry and the War on the Lakes
"We have met the enemy and they are ours."
It is a national slogan, passed in perpetuity down through the generations that own allegiance to this iron-thewed, majestic young giant of the West, the United States of America. First learned in the schoolroom, it may lie dormant in some dark cranny of the brain in the after-time, when the boy has become a man and is battling with the world in search of pelf or power or whatever bubble he pursues; but let that phrase once more chance to fall beneath his eye, though he be gray and grim with the conflict, across the gap of years there sweeps the odd, remembered thrill, and he tingles to his finger-tips. For it is through the immortal inspiration of such traditions that the men of a nation hold in fee their birthright, a birthright that demands and receives the sacrifice of blood and brain and brawn for the simple, God-sent joy of giving them.
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