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Read the full transcript and excerpts of General Douglas MacArthur's address to a joint session of the U.S. Congress on April 19, 1951. He announced his retirement from the military and quoted an old army ballad: \"Old soldiers never die--they just fade away.\"
Douglas MacArthur, a former general and military leader, addressed a joint session of Congress in 1951 to discuss the global threat of communism and the strategic importance of Asia. He argued that the Pacific Ocean was a natural defense line for the United States and its allies, and that the colonial era was over in Asia.
Old Soldiers (2005) is a science fiction novel by American writer David Weber, a sequel to the short story "With Your Shield" published in the anthology Bolo!, edited by the same writer. It details the future of the two survivors of that battle as they try to keep alive a remnant of humanity, deliberately separated off and sent far away from ...
The British soldier Frank Richards published his mémoire of the Great War, called Old Soldiers Never Die, in 1933. He included this: We generally wound up our evenings with the old song, set to the tune of a well-known hymn. It is generally accepted that the hymn Richards was referring to was ‘Kind Thoughts Can Never Die’.
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May 21, 2024 · General of the Army Douglas MacArthur ( 26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964) was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II, and in the Korean War.
