I couldn’t find a photo of him online, unfortunately. RIP.
COL Whitehouse:
“May it be said:
“WELL DONE!
“Be Thou at peace.”
-from the West Point Alma Mater
Note that if he was 105, then he was something like 24 when he graduated West Point. Prior elisted? Did he have some college & transfer in? Wonder what the story was?
Saw the other day that there’s now just one American WWI vet still alive. He’s something like 107 or 108.
McCain was against it before he was for it.
This does not mean that you are war mongers.
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."
The shadows are lengthening for me. The twilight is here. My days of old have vanished, tone and tint. They have gone glimmering through the dreams of things that were. Their memory is one of wondrous beauty, watered by tears, and coaxed and caressed by the smiles of yesterday. I listen vainly, but with thirsty ears, for the witching melody of faint bugles blowing reveille, of far drums beating the long roll. In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.
But in the evening of my memory, always I come back to West Point.
Always there echoes and re-echoes: Duty, Honor, Country.
Today marks my final roll call with you, but I want you to know that when I cross the river my last conscious thoughts will be of The Corps, and The Corps, and The Corps.
I bid you farewell.
General Douglas MacArthur
RIP.