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April 5th - Douglas MacArthur's Death Contrasted With Kurt Cobain's Suicide
https://freedom-justice-and-civilised-humanity.com/ ^ | April 5th, 2025 | Ozguy1945

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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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans; Music/Entertainment; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: douglasmacarthu; godswill; kurtcobain; suicide
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1 posted on 04/05/2025 10:20:57 AM PDT by Ozguy1945
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To: Ozguy1945

Suicide doesn’t end the pain, it just gives it to the ones you love.


2 posted on 04/05/2025 10:22:59 AM PDT by Az Joe (We can't spare President Trump; He fights!)
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To: Ozguy1945

In what reality can one compare General MacArthur with a grunge rocker?


3 posted on 04/05/2025 10:23:06 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: Ozguy1945

Kurt died in 1994. That would be 30 years after MacArthur.


4 posted on 04/05/2025 10:23:38 AM PDT by AlaskaErik (There are three kinds of rats: Rats, Damned Rats, and DemocRats.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Oz lives in an alternate reality.


5 posted on 04/05/2025 10:24:53 AM PDT by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Responsibility2nd

“In what reality can one compare General MacArthur with a grunge rocker?”
Thank you. Beat me to the point, but I totally agree.


6 posted on 04/05/2025 10:25:15 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Ozguy1945
...singer Kury Cobain died by a self inflicted gunshot to the head.

I am pretty sure it was Courtney-inflicted.

7 posted on 04/05/2025 10:27:52 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats are the Party of anger, hate and violence.)
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To: Ozguy1945

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.


8 posted on 04/05/2025 10:31:15 AM PDT by woweeitsme
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To: Jamestown1630

He does. Down Under is a very alternate reality land.


9 posted on 04/05/2025 10:35:57 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd (Nobody elected Elon Musk? Well nobody elected the Deep State either.)
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To: Ozguy1945

Kurt was a snotty little brat indicative of his generation’s obsession with playing the unloved victim.


10 posted on 04/05/2025 10:38:41 AM PDT by CodeToad ( )
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To: woweeitsme

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.


11 posted on 04/05/2025 10:39:19 AM PDT by hiho hiho
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To: Ozguy1945
When the Japanese invaded the Philippines MacArthur had done little to prepare for it. Why he got a medal of honor for retreating to Australia in a PT boat I'll never understand. In the end, he was just a demented old egomaniac. Yes, he was a brilliant military strategist, but I don't think he was among the best of that time.
12 posted on 04/05/2025 10:39:52 AM PDT by rexthecat
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To: Ozguy1945

Why compare the death of a famous general with the suicide of a druggie diagnosed with bipolar disorder?

Nothing to see here. Move on...


13 posted on 04/05/2025 10:42:01 AM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Ozguy1945

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.


14 posted on 04/05/2025 10:49:22 AM PDT by DFG
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To: rexthecat

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.


15 posted on 04/05/2025 10:54:13 AM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Responsibility2nd
Cobain was buried in a pet cemetary and he shall return...


16 posted on 04/05/2025 10:54:58 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: Responsibility2nd

Courtney Love was a history buff


17 posted on 04/05/2025 11:02:06 AM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: Az Joe

“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.”


18 posted on 04/05/2025 11:10:17 AM PDT by Wuli
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To: rexthecat
Why he got a medal of honor for retreating to Australia in a PT boat I'll never understand.

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.

19 posted on 04/05/2025 11:11:10 AM PDT by Tallguy
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“MacArthur had done little to prepare for it.”
That is not true. There was a plan in place to retreat, as was done, and hold till relieved. Roosevelt and Marshall decided that Europe was more important. MacArthur was prepared to stay, along with his family, but Roosevelt ORDERED, him to go to Australia. Compare the battle for the Philippines to Singapore.
20 posted on 04/05/2025 11:23:11 AM PDT by MCF (If my home can't be my Castle, then it will be my Alamo)
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