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Congressional Gold Medal Recipient
General Douglas MacArthur
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Famous Quote From General Douglas MacArthur "It is my earnest hope - indeed the hope of all mankind - that from this solemn occasion a better world shall emerge out of the blood and carnage of the past, a world found upon faith and understanding, a world dedicated to the dignity of man and the fulfillment of his most cherished wish for freedom, tolerance and justice."
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General Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander of South-West Pacific (1945) "In war there is no substitute for victory."
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General Douglas MacArthur "I Shall Return"
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General Douglas MacArthur
"The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the purpose, as I understand it, of organizing the American offensive against Japan, a primary objective of which is the relief of the Philippines. I came through and
I shall return." -
General Douglas MacArthur "Nine times of ten an army has been destroyed because its supply lines have been severed"
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General MacArthur, August 1950 to the Joint Chiefs of Staff There is no security in this life. There is only opportunity.
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General Douglas MacArthur "In war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is an eyelash."
- General Douglas MacArthur In war there is no substitute for victory.
- General Douglas MacArthur Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.
- General Douglas MacArthur The powers in charge keep us in a perpetual state of fear keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor with the cry of grave national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
- General Douglas MacArthur We are not retreating -- we are advancing in another direction.
- General Douglas MacArthur By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, ''Our Father Who Art in Heaven.''
- General Douglas MacArthur No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation
- General Douglas MacArthur A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
- General Douglas MacArthur The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.
- General Douglas MacArthur You are remembered for the rules you break.
- General Douglas MacArthur There's no security on this earth, only opportunity.
- General Douglas MacArthur Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.
- General Douglas MacArthur Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.
- General Douglas MacArthur I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
- General Douglas MacArthur It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
- General Douglas MacArthur "One cannot wage war under present conditions without the support of public opinion, which is tremendously molded by the press and other forms of propaganda."
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General Douglas MacArthur "In no other profession are the penalties for employing untrained personnel so appalling or so irrevocable as in the military."
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General Douglas MacArthur On the fields of friendly strife are sown the seed that on other days and other fields will bear the fruits of victory.
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General Douglas MacArthur I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.
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General Douglas MacArthur A Brief History - The Medal of Honor*
and General MacArthur's Participation in its Renewal of Honor
The first formal system for rewarding acts of individual gallantry by the nation's fighting men was established by General George Washington on August 7, 1782. Designed to recognize "any singularly meritorious action," the award consisted of a purple cloth heart. Records show that only three persons received the ward: Sergeant Elijah Churchill, Sergeant William Brown, and Sergeant Daniel Bissel Jr. The Badge of Military Merit, as it was called, fell into oblivion until 1932, when
General Douglas MacArthur, then Army Chief of Staff, pressed for its revival. Officially reinstituted on February 22, 1932, the now familiar Purple Heart was at first an Army award, given to those who had been wounded in World War I or who possessed a Meritorious Service Citation Certificate. In 1943, the order was amended to include personnel of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard. Coverage was eventually extended to include all services and "any civilian national" wounded while serving with the Armed Forces. Although the Badge of Military Merit fell into disuse after the
Revolutionary War, the idea of a decoration for individual gallantry remained through the early 1800s. In 1847, after the outbreak of the Mexican-American War, a "certificate of merit" was established for any soldier who distinguished himself in action. No medal went with the honor. After the Mexican-American War, the award was discontinued, which meant there was no military award with which to recognize the nation's fighting men. Early in the Civil War, a medal for individual valor was proposed to General-in-Chief of the Army Winfield Scott. But Scott felt medals smacked of European affectation and killed the idea. The medal found support in the Navy, however, where it was felt recognition of courage in strife was needed. Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy medal of valor, was signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln on December 21, 1861. The medal was "to be bestowed upon such petty officers, seamen, landsmen, and Marines as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry and other seamanlike qualities during the present war." Shortly after this, a resolution similar in wording was introduced on behalf of the Army. Signed into law July 12, 1862, the measure provided for awarding a medal of honor "to such noncommissioned officers and privates as shall most distinguish themselves by their gallantry in action, and other soldierlike qualities, during the present insurrection." Although it was created for the Civil War, Congress made the
Medal of Honor a permanent decoration in 1863. Almost 3,400 men and one woman have received the award for heroic actions in the nation's battles since that time. Even General MacArthur's Father was a
Medal of Honor Recipient He was awarded the Medal of Honor (in 1890) for service at Missionary Ridge, and he and his son, Douglas, are one of only two father-son recipients of the Medal of Honor in U.S. history (the others being
Theodore Roosevelt, who was recently awarded the Medal of Honor for his exploits in the
Spanish American War, and his son, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., who was awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions in World War II).
MacARTHUR, ARTHUR, JR. Rank and organization: First Lieutenant, and Adjutant, 24th Wisconsin Infantry. Place and date: At Missionary Ridge, Tennessee, 25 November 1863. Entered service at: Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Birth: Springfield, Massachusetts. Date of issue: 30 June 1890.
Citation: Seized the colors of his regiment at a critical moment and planted them on the captured works on the crest of Missionary Ridge.
MacArthur, Douglas
Rank and organization: General, U.S. Army, commanding U.S. Army Forces in the Far East. Place and date: Bataan Peninsula, Philippine Islands. Entered service at: Ashland, Wis. Birth: Little Rock, Ark. G.O. No.: 16, 1 April 1942.
CITATION: For conspicuous leadership in preparing the Philippine Islands to resist conquest, for gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action against invading Japanese forces, and for the heroic conduct of defensive and offensive operations on the Bataan Peninsula. He mobilized, trained, and led an army which has received world acclaim for its gallant defense against a tremendous superiority of enemy forces in men and arms. His utter disregard of personal danger under heavy fire and aerial bombardment, his calm judgment in each crisis, inspired his troops, galvanized the spirit of resistance of the Filipino people, and confirmed the faith of the American people in their Armed Forces.
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