The seriousness of our profession was most vividly explained by in his farewell speech to West Point Cadets in May of 1962 when he said ?Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory, that if you lose, the Nation will be destroyed, that the very obsession of your public service must be Duty, Honor, Country

The speech was given by  General Douglas MacArthur.                

Explanation:

General Douglas MacArthur is an American 5-star general who lived between 1880-1964. He served as the Superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and was famous for his prominent role in the Pacific theater campaign during World War II.

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while it was true that the cotton gin reduced the labor of removing seeds, it did not reduce the need for slaves to grow and pick the cotton.

explanation:

before eli whitney's invention of the cotton gin, picking and cleaning cotton was a slow, labor-intensive job. workers, usually slaves, had to pick the seeds from the cotton fibers by hand. this invention made it possible to grow large amounts of cotton on big farms and make money.