Posted on 04/05/2025 10:20:57 AM PDT by Ozguy1945
General Douglas MacArthur died on April 5th 1964. In the following days 150,000 people viewed his casket.
20 years later April 5th is probably the day singer Kury Cobain died by a self inflicted gunshot to the head. His suicide note included these words: “I have a goddess of a wife who sweats ambition and empathy and a daughter who reminds me too much of what i used to be ....... And that terrifies me to the point to where I can barely function. I can’t stand the thought of Frances becoming the miserable, self-destructive, death rocker that I’ve become.”
I believe the coincidence of dates is God’s way of getting us to think about the relative meaning of these men’s lives.
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Suicide doesn’t end the pain, it just gives it to the ones you love.
In what reality can one compare General MacArthur with a grunge rocker?
Kurt died in 1994. That would be 30 years after MacArthur.
Oz lives in an alternate reality.
“In what reality can one compare General MacArthur with a grunge rocker?”
Thank you. Beat me to the point, but I totally agree.
I am pretty sure it was Courtney-inflicted.
Don’t really understand the “pain” of being wealthy and famous...but I know he had enough resources to get out of the limelight and get himself mental health. It’s a shame that he left his daughter without a father.
MacArthur, on the other hand, saw far worse circumstances than Cobain could have ever dreamed of.
He does. Down Under is a very alternate reality land.
Kurt was a snotty little brat indicative of his generation’s obsession with playing the unloved victim.
The poor and unknown and hold on to the hope that wealth and fame will make them happy.
The rich and famous have discovered that wealth and fame do not make them happy only more miserable.
The hole in one’s soul can not be self filled.
Why compare the death of a famous general with the suicide of a druggie diagnosed with bipolar disorder?
Nothing to see here. Move on...
Through early morning fog I see
visions of the things to be
the pains that are withheld for me
I realize and I can see...
that suicide is painless
It brings on many changes
and I can take or leave it if I please.
In the early decades of the 20th century most of the elite in the State, War and Navy Departments looked East to Europe.
Douglas McArthur was one whose interest lay to the West, Japan and the rest of Asia.
Courtney Love was a history buff
“Suicide doesn’t end the pain, it just gives it to the ones you love.”
I would say it differently, thus:
“Suicide doesn’t end the pain, it just gives it to the ones who love you.”
Laying on the medals is a time-proven way to paper-over a military disaster. See Lynch, Jessica and Tillman, Pat. Don't misunderstand -- I'm not criticizing either, but the medals were primarily an attempt to shape the public debate.
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