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In recognition of his status as one of the nation's greatest living military leaders, the U.S. Congress asked General Douglas MacArthur to address a joint session on April 19, 1951. His speech is best known for its final lines in which he quoted an old army ballad: "'Old soldiers never die--they just fade away.'.
Douglas MacArthur's Old Soldiers Never Die speech, delivered before joint session of Congress at Washington D.C. - April 19, 1951. Full text transcript, audio clip with still images.
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- Japan- Congress- Speeches- Army officers- Reproduction number: A63 (color slide; first and last pages)- Gen. Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964) was one of most prominent United States military figures of the first half of the twentieth century. In World War I he served as chief of staff of the Forty-sec...- When Communist North Korea invaded South Korea in 1950, President Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) committed American forces to a United Nations-sanctioned intervention and placed MacArthur in command...- By the end of 1950 not only had all of South Korea been freed, but American and United Nations forces had captured the North Korean capital and, moving north, were approaching the Chinese border....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 ...
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