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Douglas MacArthur

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They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them.


— Douglas MacArthur


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Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would yield every honor which has been accorded by war.


— Douglas MacArthur


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I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.


— Douglas MacArthur


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There is no substitute for victory.


— Douglas MacArthur


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Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.


— Douglas MacArthur


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The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.


— Douglas MacArthur


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Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.


— Douglas MacArthur


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In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.


— Douglas MacArthur


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In its center lies a sunken circular crypt with two marble sarcophagi one for MacArthur the other for Jean who continued to live in the Waldorf Towers until her own death in 2000. He ignored the request. The Australians repulsed the Japanese at Milne Bay but a series of defeats in the Kokoda Track campaign had a depressing effect back in Australia.

In the fighting on the Western Front during World War I he rose to the rank of brigadier general was again nominated for a Medal of Honor and was awarded the DistinguiDouglas MacArthurd Service Cross twice and the Silver Star seven times. Army and the only man ever to become a field marshal in the Philippine Army. Truman on 11 April 1951.

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