 You ask me who I am. I answer by telling you that I am a soldier. Origins are many and varied. I was not always a soldier who grew up in 10,000 neighborhoods of this great country of ours, 10,000 towns and cities, each with its own particular pace and way of doing things, its own ways of passing the time of day, its own contribution to the American way of life. I am at home in the populous neighborhoods of Manhattan and Chicago, and San Francisco. I am also at home among the far mountains and on the plains and deserts. I know well the farmlands which out of their rich bounty have provided food for our increasing millions in war and peace. In each place there is something of strength and of pride. A grandeur that has shaped my sense of nation in this bigness are my roots and from it spring the beginnings of my devotion and love of country.