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        I want to express our strong hope that all of you who have come to the Academy as Plebes will stay in the Navy.  I can think of no more rewarding a career.  You will have a chance in the next ten, twenty, and thirty years to serve the cause of freedom and your country all over the globe, to hold positions of the highest responsibility, to recognize that upon your good judgement in many cases may well rest not only the well-being of the men with whom you serve, but also in a very real sense the security of your country.

        I can imagine a no more rewarding career.  And, any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a great deal of pride and satisfaction: "I served in the United States Navy."

President John F. Kennedy
Remarks to the U.S. Naval Academy
Class of 1967
Annapolis, Maryland, 1 August 1963