Alter | 84 Jahre (verstorben) |
Beruf | Offizier |
Geburtsdatum | Montag, 26. Januar 1880 |
Geburtsort | Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S. |
Todesdatum | Sonntag, 05. April 1964 |
Todesort | Washington, D.C. |
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Beschreibung | Douglas MacArthur war ein Berufsoffizier der United States Army. Er war Brigadegeneral im Ersten Weltkrieg und wurde General of the Army im Zweiten Weltkrieg. Mit Admiral Chester W. Nimitz war er Oberbefehlshaber im Pazifikkrieg. Nach Kriegsende hatte er in der Besatzungszeit in Japan den Oberbefehl. Im Koreakrieg befehligte er die Friedenstruppen der Vereinten Nationen bis zu seiner Entlassung am 11. April 1951. Er ist einer der höchstdekorierten Soldaten der Streitkräfte der Vereinigten Staaten. |
Like the old soldier of the ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Goodbye.
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
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.
The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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.
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
