Naval Academy Traditions
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"Anchors Aweigh" (historical)
You can download the clip or download a player to play the clip in your browser. 1929 acetate recording performance of "Anchors Aweigh" by the United States Navy Band. Read more about this topic: United States Naval Academy Famous quotes containing the words naval, academy and/or traditions:“It is now time to stop and to ask ourselves the question which my last commanding officer, Admiral Hyman Rickover, asked me and every other young naval officer who serves or has served in an atomic submarine. For our Nation M for all of us M that question is, “Why not the best?”” “When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.” “... the more we recruit from immigrants who bring no personal traditions with them, the more America is going to ignore the things of the spirit. No one whose consuming desire is either for food or for motor-cars is going to care about culture, or even know what it is.” |