Theodore Roosevelt actually said...

I ask that you show your appreciation of what the Navy did in '98, that you show your appreciation of what was done in the past by the pione...

I ask that we, the inheritors of the glory of the men who founded the Republic under Washington, of the men who saved it under Lincoln, in o...

We can glory now in the deeds of Manilla and Santiago, because for the dozen years before our people were building up the Navy.

If we do not, then our children when they look back for cause of pride in our history will have to skip our generation.