Posted on 09/05/2016 9:26:14 AM PDT by EveningStar
American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964 is a 1978 biography of General of the Army Douglas MacArthur by American historian William Manchester. (1) (2)
In 1983, it was made into a four-part four-hour documentary series. It was hosted by John Huston and narrated by John Colicos. You can watch it online here on YouTube.
I never read anything like that statement
What is your source ?
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Build me a son whose wishes will not take the place of deeds; a son who will know Thee — and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.
Lead him, I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail...
Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.
And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously.
Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, and the meekness of true strength.
Then, I, his father, will dare to whisper, "I have not lived in vain."
Probably one of the greatest Americans who ever lived and one of my personal heroes along with Charles Lindbergh. PS. I have met both of them.
I have always had mixed feelings about MacArthur:
While it is true that he established a Democratic-Republic in Japan after the war, his previous record is checkered at best.
He got his butt run out of the Phillipines. Sure he returned but he shouldn’t have been run out in the first place had he been prepared.
He got run out of Korea.....twice. True, the invasion at Inchon was genius.
He was then fired for insubordination.
War hero? I repeat, “checkered at best”.
Tell me about Patton.
a lot of parallels tween him and his dad...not good ones either.
“His cavalry charge and beat down of WWI vets...”
I had never heard about this until I was in college. I wrote a paper on it, complete with photographs. Sure knocked him off his pedestal as far as I was concerned.
Chill, dude, it’s a joke!
Douglas MacArthur had a monumental ego which was key to his success as an officer & senior commander (Patton did as well). Fact is, Japan is governed to this day by the “MacArthur Constitution” which transformed a warlord-dominated society into a peaceful nation with a Western outlook.
Whether MacArthur thought himself godlike is pure conjecture. He did summon Hirohito to his HQ and had that famous photo taken which symbolized that a new order in Japan had been inaugurated. Showed their differences in height, too.
Plenty of MacArthur jokes were circulating among his officers and men in those days, as they do for anyone wielding command authority. Goes with the territory, IMO.
Me too.
The only person the left compares him to is Hitler. That tells you all you need to know about them.
MacArthur sure had his flaws but he was one of those larger than
life characters.
My grandmother’s mother and sisters knew little Dougie as a kid
but of course he was a pest being younger than them and a boy.
Their father was Arthur MacArthur’s First Sergeant for several years.
I believe that was Company I of the 13th Infantry at Fort Selden,
New Mexico Territory and in Little Rock in the post war Occupation.
My Grandfather knew MacArthur also. He was national president of the
42nd Division Assn. one year and MacArthur was the Division Chief of Staff in World War One.
Think about this: MacArthur actually went west with his parents in covered wagon and lived to drop the Atomic bomb on Japan. What a span of human history!
I know all about MacArthur and Japan. Hoss
Didn’t see any reference to a joke in your post
You could make a case that he remade the PI, too.
And...learned from it for his role in Tokyo.
Once again, I was making a joke, Hoss. I’ve studied MacArthur too, Hoss.
;^)
MacArthur was an imperfect human being, but then, who isn't? Still, shortcomings and all, he towers like a giant over the Lilliputians on here and elsewhere who have appointed themselves his judges.
Without Ike, George Patton would have spent the rest of the war years after the Sicily campaign shuffling paper in the Pentagon.
Good for you dude
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