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  To serve the flag and bravely stand To guard the glory of my land; To be American in deed, God grant me strength to keep this creed.

It’s a bigger thing you’re doing than the most of us have done; We have lived the days of pleasure; now the gray days have begun, And upon your manly shoulders fall the burdens of the strife; Yours must be the sacrifices of the trial time of life. Oh, I don’t know how to say it, but I’ll never think of you Without wishing I were sharing in the work you have to do.