I know many of you were convinced last night at about six o’clock local time the world
was going to come to an end.
Just because it hasn’t doesn’t mean that it’s not nearby because my appearing today
at Yale University is surely one of the four horsemen of the apocalypse.
Today is your day.
Please, do not turn off your electronic devices.
Leave your iPhone, your iPad, your Sidekicks, your Droids, your blackberries powered up,
recording, photographing, texting out all that emerges from this stage over the next
few minutes.
Later on
today you can compare your tweets and your Facebook comments with those of others to
figure out if anything memorable went down.
You know what, tweet that last sentence I just said.
Take this speech and set it to music and maybe insert some crazy kooky graphics.
Starin' that video yourself and post on the web and if it becomes a viral sensation you’ll
be equal to any cat playing with a paper bag or any set of twin toddlers talking gibberish
to each other, as popular as that cute girl that sings about Fridays.
Just one of the possibilities in our brave new world, the world you now inherit whether
you’d like it or not.
The jig is up.
The clock has run out and the future with a capital ‘F’ now rests with all of you
all because you went to Yale.
You are now the anointed, the charge holders, the best and brightest.
Each of you is a shining hope for our nation in the world.
You are the new wizards who can finally make sense of all the delta vectors and square
roots and divided by’s out there that we call the human race.
The generations before you came of age took on the job and now it’s your turn.
I once had a friend, who had a rich uncle, who promised to pay for his college as long
as my friend wished to stay in school.
“You should stay in school as long as you can”the rich uncle said “because when
you get out of college you’ve got to work every day for the rest of your life.”
You all will come to understand what that rich uncle meant, just as surely as you will
someday wonder where the hell you put your reading glasses and yell at your own kids
to turn the damn music down.
On spring days like today, it’s traditional for us to ponder the state of the world and
implore you all to help make it a better place which implies that things are somehow worse
today than they were when we were sitting where you are right now.I’m not so sure
the planet earth is in worse shape than it was 30, no 18, no four years ago.
That’s not to say it’s in better shape either.
Refraining from waxing nostalgic and comparing our then to your now and avoiding any talk
of “You kids these days with your rap and your ‘hip-hopin’ and your ‘snoopy dogg
daddies with the diddy pops’, with your “fiddy” cents and your quarter cents…”
That sober look shows that just as world has gotten to be a better place after all, and
has also grown a bit worse at the exact same rate.
A one step up and one step back, sort of cosmic balance between forward progress and cultural
retreat that puts mankind on the bell curve of existence.
That shows a small segment in joy, ease and comfort while an equal portion struggle on
with little hope in the fortunes of the remainder, either on the rise or on the wane in this
confounding tide of so many damn things that we grow oblivious to the shifts in the quality
of our lives.
Graduation Day is the proper occasion to put a toe in the global waters and I think the
mercury shows that things are much as they always have been.
Ten years ago we busied ourselves with trivial stuff imbued with importance and then came
9/11.
In 1991 riches were created in new businesses that had never existed.
Then that economic balloon burst.In ’81 I had a great job on T.V. and in ’82 Bosom
Buddies was cancelled.
In ‘71 color T.V. in more living rooms than ever showed young Americans still fighting
in combat in Vietnam and in ‘61 satellites beamed live images around the world for the
very first time but those images were of the building of the Berlin Wall.
This ten-year grid shows the same yin yang thing; I’m trying to copyright that.
It shows the same yin yang thing.
We all have these devices that can make a permanent record of revolutionary change on
the other side of the globe as well as hate filled diatribes from across town.
Fewer and fewer in our country go to bed hungry but do you see how obesity now affects half
of our population?
No matter how many bargains we find at the local You-Mart many of us still struggle to
pay the rent and the utilities.
Our country is no longer in physical or even ideological war with our enemies, for most
of the last century, but in the 11 and half years of the third millennium our armed forces
have been fighting in the field for nine of them.
Purchasing intellectual property and the work of artists we admire is a simple as clicking
a mouse and paying less than a few bucks.
Which means you may find that there is no guarantee in making a living at your chosen
discipline.
Now some advantages particular to this age are not to be denied.
Boredom seems to have been vanquished.
There is always something to do, but hasn’t this translated into a perpetual distraction
in our lives, in the bathroom, at the dinner table, in the back seat, at a wedding, at
a graduation day?
There’s always something to check, something to tweet, something to watch, something to
download, something to share, something to buy, someone on a voice mail, something to
yank at our attention span and it’s all in the palm of our hand for a small monthly
service fee.
That same technology has allowed for a surplus of celebrities and that is nothing to cheer
about.
Anyone can enjoy the perks of notoriety now and the
duration of fame has been lengthened from Andy Warhol’s brief 15 minutes to a good
15 months if you’re willing to do certain things on camera.
Though Orwellian language is often the vocabulary of official new speak his boogie man that
was the all-seeing big brother has never emerged unless you live in North Korea or run a red
light in Beverly Hills or shop online or have done something stupid in the wrong place at
the wrong time in front of someone with a camera and their cell phone and that is everybody.
Pardon my junior college Latin, the vulgus populi has become the all-seeing state and
if you cross it, Google search will forever display your screw-up.
So actually there is a big brother but he’s not a malevolent fiction; he’s actually
all of us, who lives in our search engines.
So no matter how many times I do the calculations I come up with the social draw.
The positives balance the negatives.
The x’s equal the y’s and our hopes weigh as much as our fears but I hesitate on that
last one because fear, good lord, fear is a powerful physiological force of 2011.
We here up in stands and surrounding you graduating class look to you as we do every year, hoping
you will now somehow through your labors free us from what we have come to fear and we have
come to fear many things.
Fear has become the commodity that sells as certainly as sex.
Fear is cheap.
Fear is easy.
Fear gets attention.
Fear is spread as fast as gossip and is just as glamorous, juicy and profitable.Fear twist
facts into fictions that become indistinguishable from ignorance.
Fear is a profit-churning goto with the whole market being your whole family.
I was sitting at the house one day, watching the game on T.V.not long ago and along came
this promo for the local nightly news.
“Are our schools poisoning our children!?
That story and summer’s hottest bikinis tonight at 11:00.”
In that I had school-age kids at the time I feared that they were in fact being poisoned
at school and summer was still a few weeks away.
So I tuned in to get the scoop and the actual news story of that news broadcast was this.
A certain supply of hamburger was found to have a bit too much of a particular bacteria
in it and for safety’s sake was being taken off the market.
That same hamburger was slated for sale to an out of state school system for its cafeterias
but it was recalled in time.
So answering that news program’s own question, no
our schools were not poisoning our children but yes that summer there would be some very
hot bikinis at the beach.
The early American naval commander John Paul Jones said “If fear is cultivated it will
become stronger.
If faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.” and this is why I’m a big fan of history
because observations in the American colonies over 200 years ago by Nathan Hale, who lived
in that building right over there, translate word for word of the United States in 2011,
“For I take that fear to be fear in large-scale.
Fear itself intimidating and constant and I take faith to be what we hold in ourselves,
our American ideal of self-determination.”
Fear is whispered in our ears and shouted in our faces.
Faith must be fostered by the man or woman you see every day in the mirror.
The former forever snaps at our heels and delays our course.
The latter can spur our boot heels to be wandering, stimulate our creativity and drive us forward.
Fear or faith, which will be our master?
Three men found that they could no longer sleep because of their deep seeded fears.
This is a story I’m telling.
Their lives were in a state of stasis because of their constant worries.
So they set out on a pilgrimage to find a wiseman who lived high in the mountain, so
high up above the tree line that no vegetation grew, no animals lived, not even insects could
be found so high up in the mountains in that thin air.
When they reached his cave the first of the three said “Help me Wiseman for my fear
has crippled me.”
“What is your fear?” asked the Wiseman.
“I fear death.”
said the pilgrim.
“I wonder when it is going to come for me.”
“Death” said the wise men “let me take away this fear my friend.
Death will not come to call until you are ready for its embrace.
Know that and your fear will go away.”
This calmed that pilgrim’s mind and he feared death no longer.
The Wiseman then turned to the second pilgrim and said “What is it you fear my friend?”
“I fear my new neighbors.”
said the second pilgrim.“They are strangers who observe holy days different than mine.
They have way too many kids.
They play music that sounds like noise.”
“Strangers” said the Wiseman, “I will take away this fear my friend.
Return to your home and make a cake for your new neighbors.
Bring toys to their children.
Join them in their songs and learn their ways and you will become familiar with these neighbors
and your fear will go away.”
When the second man saw the wisdom in the simple instructions he knew he would no longer
fear the family who were his neighbors.
There in the cave so high in the mountains that nothing could live, the Wiseman turned
to the last pilgrim and asked of his fear.
“Oh Wiseman, I fear spiders.
WhenI try to sleep at night I imagine spiders dropping from the ceiling and crawling upon
my flesh and I cannot rest.”
“Spiders” said the Wiseman, “no shit why do you think I live way up here.”
Fear will get the worst of the best of us and peddlers of influence count on that.
Throughout our nation’s constant struggle to create a more perfect union, establish
justice and assure our domestic tranquility, we battle fear from outside our borders, from
within our own hearts every day of our history.
Our nation came to be despite fear of retribution for treason from a kingdom across the sea.
America was made strong and diverse because here people could live free from the fears
that made up their daily lives in whatever land they called the old country.
Our history books tell of the conflicts taken up to free people from fear, those kept in
slavery in our own states and deliberate whole nations under the rule of tyrants and theologies
rooted in fear.
The American cause, at its best, has been the cultivation of a faith that declares we
will all live in peace when we are all free to worship as we choose, when we are free
to express our hearts and when we all seek a place free from fear but we live in the
world where too many of us are too ready to believe in things that do not exist, conspiracies.
Divisions are constructed, the differences between us are not celebrated for making us
stronger but are calculated and programed to set us against each other.
Our faith is tested by unpredictable providence and threatened when common sense is corrupted
by specific interests speaking from 54 years of experience the work towards a more perfect
union isa never ending concern.
It involves each and every one of us.
Evidence that our nation is becoming a better place is everywhere but each new day fear
is, as the Jersey poet said, “Lurking in the darkness on the edge of town.”
Your rising from bed every morning will give fear it’s chance to grow stronger just as
it will afford faith its chance to blossom.
You will make the choice to react to one or create the other and because you are smart
enough to earn your place on this college day at Yale University you will sense the
moment and you will know what to do.
In the meantime ponder this front.
In the struggle against ceaseless fear and its ceaseless flow, in the coming months and
years veterans of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan will finally come home for good after so many
tours.
Some after many tours that wore the body and the soul and spilled a great portion of their
lives.
For all of them, after a long time spent far away in the harsh realm of war, they’ve
returned different from what they were when they left.
Surely their faith in themselves is shadowed by a fear of not knowing what is expected
of them next.
No matter what your view of those wars over there you can affect the future of our nation
right here by taking their fears head on.
You can imprint the very next pages of the history of our troubled world by reinforcing
the faith of those returning veterans, allowing them to rest, aiding in their recovery, if
possible their complete recovery.
So let those of us who watched and debated their long deployments serve them now as they
served when they were asked and as they were ordered.
Let’s provide for them their place free from fear by educating them if they can learn,
by employing them as they transition from soldier back to citizen and by empathizing
with the new journey they’re starting even though we will never fully understand the
journey they just completed.
We all will define the true nature of our American identity, not by the parades and
the welcome home parties but how we match their time in the service with service of
our own.
Give it four years, as many years as you’ve spent here at Yale.
In acts both proactive and spontaneous and do the things you can to free veterans from
the new uncertainty that awaits them, from the mysterious fears they will face the day
after they come home.
Cultivate in them the faith to carry on and they will do the rest.
Your work begins, work that will not be always joyful to you, labor that may not always fulfill
you and days that will seem like one damn thing after the other.
It’s true you will now work every day for the rest of your lives, that full-time job,
your career as human beings and as Americans and as graduates of Yale is to stand on the
fulcrum between fear and faith, fear at your back, faith in front of you.
Which way will you lean?
Which way will you move?
Move forward, ever forward and tweet out a picture of the results.
It may make you famous.
Thank you and congratulations.
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我知道你们中的许多人都相信，昨晚 当地时间六点左右，
世界将走向终结。
没有，不代表 它不在附近，因为我今天出现
在耶鲁大学，肯定 是天启四骑士之一。
今天是你的好日子。
请不要关闭您的电子设备。 在接下来的几分钟内
，让你的 iPhone、iPad、Sidekicks 、Droids、黑莓开机，
记录、拍照、发短信
。 今天
晚些时候，
您可以将您的推文和 Facebook 评论与其他人的评论进行比较，以
确定是否有任何令人难忘的事情发生了变化。
你知道吗，推特我 刚才说的最后一句话。
把这个演讲设置成音乐，也许 插入一些疯狂的古怪图形。
自己盯着那个视频发到 网上，如果它成为一种病毒式的感觉，你
就相当于任何一只猫在玩纸袋， 或者任何一对双胞胎蹒跚学步的孩子
互相胡言乱语，就像那个唱歌的可爱女孩一样受欢迎 关于星期五。
只是我们勇敢的新世界中的一种可能性， 无论您是否愿意，您现在都可以继承这个世界
。
夹具起来了。
时间已经过去了 ，大写字母“F”的未来现在取决于你们
所有人，因为你们去了耶鲁。
你现在是受膏者、负责人、 最优秀、最聪明的人。
你们每个人都是我们国家在世界上的闪亮希望 。
你们是新的巫师，他们终于可以 理解所有的 delta 向量和
平方根并除以我们 称之为人类的那些。
你成年之前的几代人 承担了这份工作，现在轮到你了。
我曾经有一个朋友，他有一个有钱的叔叔， 他承诺
只要我的朋友想留在学校就可以支付他的大学费用。
“你应该尽可能地留在学校 ”，富叔说，“因为当
你大学毕业后， 你的余生每天都要工作。”
你们都会明白那个 有钱的叔叔的意思，就像
有一天你们会想知道你把 老花镜放在哪里，对自己的孩子大喊大叫
以关掉该死的音乐一样。
在像今天这样的春日里， 我们通常会思考世界的状况，并
恳请大家帮助把它变成一个更好的地方 ，这意味着
今天的情况比我们现在坐在 你们所在的地方更糟。我 我不太
确定地球的状况是否 比 30 岁、18 岁、4 年前更糟。
这并不是说它的状态更好 。
避免怀旧并将 我们的过去与现在进行比较，避免
谈论“这些天你们这些孩子用你的说唱和 你的‘嘻哈’和你的‘snoopy dog
daddies with the diddy pops’，用你的 ‘烦人’美分和 你的四分之一美分……”
那清醒的表情表明，正如世界已经 变得更好了，而且
也以完全相同的速度变得更糟了 。
一步上来，一步后退，一种 向前进步与文化退却之间的宇宙平衡
，使人类处于生存的钟形曲线 上。
这显示了一小部分人在快乐、轻松和 舒适中挣扎，而另一部分人则在
对其余人的命运毫无希望的情况下苦苦挣扎，在
如此多该死的事情的混杂浪潮中上升或下降，以至于 我们逐渐忘记了
我们生活质量的转变。
毕业日 是涉足全球水域的合适时机，我认为
水星表明事情与 往常一样。
十年前，我们忙着处理 那些充满重要性的琐碎事情，然后就发生了
9/11。
1991 年，从未存在过的新企业创造了财富 。
然后那个经济气球破灭了。在 81 年， 我在电视上找到了一份很棒的工作，而在 82 年，Bosom
Buddies 被取消了。
在 71 年的彩色电视中，比以往更多的客厅 显示年轻的美国人
仍在越南作战，在 61 年，卫星 首次向世界各地传输实时图像，
但这些图像 是柏林墙的建筑。
这个十年的网格显示了同样的阴阳 事物； 我正在尝试对其进行版权保护。
它显示了同样的阴阳事物。
我们都拥有这些设备，可以 永久记录
地球另一端的革命性变化，以及来自城镇另一端的充满仇恨的 谩骂。
在我们国家，饿着肚子上床睡觉的人越来越少， 但你知道肥胖现在如何影响
我们一半的人口吗？
无论我们在当地的 You-Mart 找到多少便宜货，我们中的 许多人仍然难以
支付租金和水电费。 在上个世纪的大部分
时间里，我们的国家不再 与我们的敌人进行身体甚至意识形态上的战争
，但在 第三个千年的 11 年半中，我们的武装部队
一直在为其中的 9 人作战。
购买知识产权和 我们欣赏的艺术家的作品就像
点击鼠标并支付不到几美元一样简单。
这意味着您可能会发现无法 保证以您选择的
学科谋生。
现在，这个时代特有的一些优势 是不可否认的。
无聊似乎已经被征服了。
总有事情要做，但这难道不是
在我们的生活中，在浴室，在 餐桌上，在后座，在婚礼上，在毕业典礼上，永远分心
吗？
总有一些东西要检查， 要发推文，要观看的东西，要
下载的东西，要分享的东西，要 购买的东西，语音邮件中的某人，要
吸引我们注意力的东西，这一切都 在我们的手掌中 每月小额
服务费。
同样的技术让 名人过剩，这没什么好高兴
的。
现在任何人都 可以享受恶名的好处，如果你愿意在镜头前做某些事情
，成名的持续时间已经从 安迪沃霍尔短暂的 15 分钟延长到了
15 个月 。
尽管奥威尔语通常 是官方新语言的词汇，但他作为无所不知的
老大哥的布吉人从未出现过， 除非你住在朝鲜，或者
在比佛利山庄闯红灯，或者在网上购物，或者 做错了愚蠢的事情
在错误的时间放在一个拿着 相机和手机的人面前，那就是每个人。
请原谅我的大专拉丁文， vulgus populi 已成为无所不知的状态，
如果您越过它，Google 搜索将永远 显示您的错误。
所以实际上有一个大哥，但他 不是恶毒小说； 他实际上
是我们所有人，都生活在我们的搜索引擎中。
因此，无论我进行多少次计算， 我都会得出社交平局。
积极因素平衡了消极因素。
x 等于 y，我们的希望 与我们的恐惧一样重要，但我对
最后一个犹豫不决，因为恐惧，上帝，恐惧 是 2011 年强大的生理力量。
我们站在看台上，围绕着你， 毕业班看着你 我们每年都这样做，希望
您现在能够通过您的工作以某种方式将 我们从我们已经
开始害怕的事情中解脱出来，我们已经开始害怕很多事情。
恐惧已成为与性一样可靠的商品 。
恐惧是廉价的。
恐惧很容易。
恐惧引起注意。
恐惧与流言蜚语一样迅速传播， 同样迷人、多汁和有利可图。恐惧将
事实扭曲成虚构， 与无知无异。
恐惧是整个 市场都是你的整个家庭的利润搅动的goto。
有一天，我坐在房子里， 不久前在电视上看比赛，随之
而来的是当地晚间新闻的宣传片。
“我们的学校在毒害我们的孩子吗！？ 今晚 11:00 的
那个故事和夏天最热的比基尼 。”
那时我有学龄儿童， 我担心他们实际上是在学校被毒害了
，而且离夏天还有几周的 时间。
所以我收听了独家 新闻，该新闻广播的实际新闻故事是这样的。
发现某份汉堡包中 含有过多的特定
细菌，为了安全起见，正在 从市场上撤下。
同样的汉堡包原计划出售 给州外学校系统的自助餐厅，
但被及时召回。
所以回答那个新闻节目自己的问题， 不，
我们的学校没有毒害我们的孩子， 但是是的，那个夏天海滩上会有一些非常
热的比基尼。
早期的美国海军指挥官约翰保 罗琼斯说：“如果恐惧被培养出来，它会变
得更强大。
信德修行，必成大器。” 这就是为什么我是历史的忠实粉丝，
因为 200 多年前，住在那边那栋楼里的内森·黑尔（Nathan Hale）对美洲殖民地的观察，
在 2011 年逐字翻译了美国，
“因为我认为 那种恐惧是大规模的恐惧。
恐惧本身令人生畏且持续不断， 我相信信念是我们对自己的信念，是
我们美国自决的理想。”
恐惧在我们耳边低语， 在我们脸上呼喊。
信仰必须由 你每天在镜子里看到的男人或女人培养。
前者永远跟在我们后面， 耽误了我们的行程。
后者可以刺激我们的鞋跟游走， 激发我们的创造力，推动我们前进。
恐惧或信仰，哪一个是我们的主人？
三名男子发现 他们因为根深蒂固的恐惧而无法入睡。
这是我要讲的一个故事。
因为不断的担忧，他们的生活处于停滞状态 。
于是他们开始朝圣，寻找 一位住在高山上的智者，如此
高的林线以上，没有植被 生长，没有动物生活，甚至
在如此高的山上，空气稀薄，连昆虫都找不到。 .
当他们到达他的洞穴时，三个人中的第一个 说：“帮我怀斯曼，因为我的恐惧
已经使我瘫痪了。”
“你害怕什么？” 智者问道。
“我怕死。”
朝圣者说。
“我想知道它什么时候会来找我。”
“死亡”，智者说，“让我 带走我朋友的恐惧。
在你 准备好接受它的拥抱之前，死亡不会来召唤。
知道这一点，你的恐惧就会消失。”
这让那朝圣者的心平静了下来，他 不再惧怕死亡。
智者然后转向第二个朝圣 者说：“你害怕我的朋友什么？”
“我害怕我的新邻居。”
第二个朝圣者说 。
他们的孩子太多了。
他们播放的音乐听起来像噪音。”
“陌生人”智者说，“我会 带走我的朋友的恐惧。
回到你的家，为你的 新邻居做蛋糕。
给他们的孩子带玩具。
加入他们的歌声，学习他们的方式 ，你就会熟悉这些邻居
，你的恐惧就会消失。”
当第二个人看到简单指示中的智慧时， 他知道他将不再
害怕作为他邻居的家人。
在山上的山洞里 ，什么都无法生存，怀斯曼
转向最后一位朝圣者，询问他的恐惧。
“哦怀斯曼，我害怕蜘蛛。
当我晚上试图入睡时，我想象蜘蛛 从天花板上掉下来爬到
我的肉上，我无法休息。”
“蜘蛛，”智者说，“ 不，你为什么认为我住在这里。”
恐惧会让我们中最优秀的人变得最坏 ，影响力的小贩指望着这一点。
在我们国家 为建立更完美的联盟、建立
正义和确保国内安宁而不断奋斗的过程中
，我们历史上的每一天都在与来自境外、来自我们内心的恐惧作斗争。
尽管害怕 因叛国罪而受到隔海相望的王国的报复，我们的国家仍然存在。
美国变得强大和多样化，因为 这里的人们可以摆脱
构成他们日常生活的恐惧，无论在 他们称之为旧国的任何土地上。
我们的历史书讲述了为使人们摆脱恐惧而进行的冲突 ，那些
在我们自己的州被奴役的人，以及 在暴君和根植于恐惧的神学统治下的蓄意整个国家
。
美国的事业，在最好的情况下，一直 是培养一种信仰，即
当我们都可以自由 地按照自己的选择进行礼拜，当我们都可以自由
地表达自己的心，以及当我们都寻求 一个自由的地方时，我们都将生活在和平中。 出于恐惧，但我们生活在一个
我们太多人已经准备好 相信不存在的事情，阴谋的世界。
划分是建立起来的， 我们之间的差异并不是为了让我们更强大而庆祝，而是为了让我们
彼此对抗而计算和编程 。
我们的信仰受到不可预知的天意的考验， 并在常识被特定利益腐蚀时受到威胁。
根据 54 年 的经验，建立更完美的联盟的工作
是永无止境的关注。
它涉及我们每一个人。
我们的国家正在变得更美好的 证据无处不在，但
正如泽西诗人所说，每一天的恐惧都是“潜伏 在城镇边缘的黑暗中”。
你每天早上起床都会让 恐惧有机会变得更强大，就像
它会让信念有机会开花一样。
您将做出选择对其中一个做出反应或 创造另一个，因为您足够聪明
，可以在耶鲁大学的这个大学日赢得您的一席之地， 您将感受到这
一刻，您将知道该怎么做。
同时思考这方面的问题。
在与无休止的恐惧及其不断涌现的斗争中 ，在未来数月
和数年中，伊拉克和阿富汗战争的退伍军人 将在经历了如此多的旅行后最终永远回家
。
有些人经过多次巡回演出，他们的身体 和灵魂都磨损了，他们的大部分
生活都倾泻而出。
对他们来说，在 遥远的战场上度过了漫长的岁月后，
他们的归来与离开时不同 。
当然，他们对自己的信心被恐惧所掩盖，他们 害怕不知道
接下来对他们的期望是什么。
无论您对那里的那些战争有何看法， 您都可以
直面他们的恐惧，从而影响我们国家的未来。
您可以 通过加强
那些归来的退伍军人的信念，让 他们休息，帮助他们康复，如果
可能的话，他们可以完全康复，从而在我们这个陷入困境的世界的历史中留下深刻的印记。
因此，让我们这些观看并辩论过 他们的长期部署的人现在为他们
服务，就像他们在被要求时和被 命令时一样服务。
让我们为他们提供一个 没有恐惧的地方，如果他们可以学习，就教育他们，
在他们从士兵转变为公民的过程中雇用他们， 并
同情他们开始的新旅程， 即使我们永远不会完全理解
他们刚刚的旅程 完全的。
我们都将定义我们美国身份的真实性质 ，而不是通过游行
和欢迎回家派对，而是我们如何将 他们在服务中的时间与我们自己的服务相匹配
。
给它四年，就像 你在耶鲁度过的一样多。
在主动和自发的行为中， 尽你所能将退伍军人从
等待他们的新不确定性中解脱出来，从 他们回家后的第二天将面临的神秘恐惧中解脱
出来。
培养他们坚持下去的信念， 剩下的事情他们会做。
你的工作开始了，工作对你来说并不总是 快乐的，工作可能并不总是
让你满意，日子看起来像是 一件接一件的事情。
的确，你现在将 在余生中每天都工作，这份全职工作，
你作为人类、美国人 和耶鲁大学毕业生的职业生涯是站在
恐惧和信仰之间的支点上，恐惧在你 背后， 信仰在你面前。
你会往哪个方向倾斜？
你会朝哪个方向移动？
前进，永远前进，并在推特上发布 结果图片。
它可能会让你出名。
谢谢和祝贺。