[risk]

Someone must post this every few months, but it's my turn. I happened on this speech again tonight. It stands for itself. No matter what one thinks of MacArthur (and he is unquestionably one of America's greatest heroes in my opinion), this speech has a message for our time and every time when freedom loving people face a threat to their way of life.

[jamaksin]

Agreed - thank you very much for posting this on the FR website.

[I have often wondered why it is "Duty, Honor, Country" and not "Country" first ...?]

[risk]

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[RunningJoke]

MacArthur was a hero? What did he do that was heroic? Walked on a beach and exclaimed, "I have returned." While troops secured the area to make sure his photo-op was safe and Wainwright and the others were dieing in a death camps.

Or was it, when he tear gassed the WWI veterans and burned down the Hooverville in Washington DC disobeying two direct orders from the President Hoover not to do it. During this heroic attack on unarmed families two infants died of aphyxiation due to the tear gas.

Not we have returned, but I have returned. Only a bum would think this egotistical jackass was a hero.

[captbarney]

MacArthur certainly was one of the great generals in history. WWI Medal of Honor. His stand at Corregidor tied down the Japanese for many more months than expected,slowing their eastward conquests. He was "ORDERED" to leave the Philippines. The photographers,movie and still, were"imbedded" with landing units(think Rosenbloom at IWO).They were already ashore when MacArthur arrived. IT WAS NO SETUP. His "Island hopping" strategy SAVED LIVES and SHORTENED WWII. The landing at Inchon was one of the greatest feats of generalship in military history. His turning Japan into a democracy was masterful leadership. He was a staunch anti-communistand is the reason he is reviled by the mass media.

[litehaus]

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[razorback-bert]

This does not mean that you are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: "Only the dead have seen the end of war."

[jpsb]

If you have a MacAuthur's ping list, please put me on it. The General is one of history's greatest commanders. And my personal hero.

[CGVet58]

I've heard tell that MacArthur's speech can be found on the internet in audio format - is this true? If so, can you point me where? People who know say that he had a powerful and magnetic presence.

J

[Pompah]

It was a dandy speech. He polished his image right to the end. But as they say, What Ever.!.

As a young man I knew and worked with several WWII Veterans
who refered to General MacArthur as " Dug Out Doug ".
Never heard the word Hero used in connection with those comments.

[VOA]

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[SAMWolf]

Thanks Risk.

[hosepipe]

"History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to ultimate national disaster." -- General Douglas MacArthur