"Upon the fields of friendly strife Are sown the seeds That, upon other fields, on other days Will bear the fruits of victory."
— Victory

January 1, 1970

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Douglas MacArthur, Reminiscences (1964), p. 82. MacArthur wrote these lines while superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, New York, 1919–1922, and had them engraved over the entrance to the gymnasium.