Perform, then, this one act of remembrance before this Day passes - Remember there is an army of defense and advance that never dies and never surrenders, but is increasingly recruited from the eternal sources of the American spirit and from the generations of American youth.

The speaker urges a deliberate, almost ritual act of civic memory—something to be done “before this Day passes.” The “army of defense and advance” is metaphorical: not a standing military force but a perpetual body of citizens committed to protecting and extending the nation’s ideals. By saying it “never dies and never surrenders,” the quote frames national endurance as moral and generational rather than merely institutional. Its “recruitment” from “the American spirit” and “American youth” emphasizes continuity: each generation inherits obligations of vigilance and progress, and remembrance is presented as the mechanism that renews that inheritance.