Also from Halder's website -- this strange paragraph: I helped make Mexico, especially Tampico, safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefits of Wall Street. The record of racketeering is long. I helped purify Nicaragua for the international banking house of Brown Brothers in 1909-1912 (where have I heard that name before?). I brought light to the Dominican Republic for American sugar interests in 1916. In China I helped to see to it that Standard Oil went its way unmolested.
[If he is 52 or 62, he certainly would not have participated in those above dates because he wouldn't even has been born then.]
He's trying to personify and speak as the American military. It is, in his hand, a juvenile example of a now-hackneyed literary device.
Its been pointed out that those are quotes from a leftist marine officer of the era.