I like my MacArthur movies made by the Moonies.
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understanding his actions in Korea, i find it difficult to lionize him...
I like my MacArthur movies made by the Moonies.
A brilliant and complex man.
With the selection we have right now, I’m liking McArthur more and more every day.
Once there was a mighty man sent to faraway Japan
To defend the liberty of peaceful nations.
While h did the best he could, there were some who thought we shoud
Let the Communists take over all creation.
Doug MacArthur is a name that will light the halls of fame
Through the ages, there will be no one above him.
Just a soldier, brave and true, to the old Red, White and Blue,
And a hundred million hearts will always love him.
His jockeying for position with Harry Truman, while landing for a meeting on Wake Island always amused me. Truman was however, unamused....
MacArthur was a brilliant general; but he was an arrogant, deeply flawed human being.
Old Soldiers Never Die--Gene Autry (1951)
My dad and his brothers were in the Navy in WW II. I was named after MacArthur.
Old Soldier’s Never Die
Never die, never die
Old Soldier’s Never Die
They just fade away
On the seventh day of December
In the year of forty-one
The free world met disaster
At the hands of the Rising Sun
From the bastions of Corregidor
Pearl Harbor and Bataan
Came the sound of war and fury
And the Death March of free man.
Then from the land
Of way down under
A mighty voice did say
Our cause is just
In God we trust
I will return someday
From Mindanao to Tarawa
Our battle song it grew
Till on Surabachi
At last Old Glory flew
From Iwo, Leyte
And a thousand Isles
Our just cause never ceased
Until one day, he did return
And once more, there was peace
Now somewhere, there stands the man
His duty o’er and won
The world will ne’er forget him
To him we say, “Well done”
Old Soldier’s Never Die
Never die, never die
Old Soldier’s Never Die
They just fade away
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.
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.