Lt Collins' Flag Day Speech

From the movie, "The Sand Pebbles," Richard Crenna as Lt Collins gives The Flag Day Speech:

"Today we begin cruising to show the flag on Tungting Lake and the Hunan Rivers. I want all honors rendered smartly. At home in America, when today reaches them it will be Flag Day. For us who wear the uniform every day is Flag Day. It is said that there will be no more wars. We must pretend to believe that. But when war comes, it is we who will take the first shock, and buy time with our lives. It is we who keep the Faith...We serve the Flag. The trade we all follow is the give and take of death. It is for that purpose that the people of America maintain us. And anyone of us who believes he has a job like any other, for which he draws a money wage, is a thief of the food he eats, and a trespasser in the bunk in which he lies down to sleep."

"We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm." -- Attributed to George Orwell