The nations of the earth must someday make a common front against attack by people from other planets.' The cadets must have wondered which planet MacArthur himself was from, but his fears were no more far-fetched than the current government-fed paranoia that millions of us are about to be murdered in our beds by Islamofascist superbiotoxins kept at 45 minutes' readiness in a bedsit in Tipton and activated by psychotic double-amputees. In October 1955 General Douglas MacArthur told the cadets of West Point: 'The next war will be an interplanetary war. That alleged quote has since been cited in a variety of works and web sites related to UFOs and extraterrestrials and still surfaces in newspapers and other publications from time to time: The subject here is a quote attributed to a 1955 West Point address by General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, in which the famous military man supposedly mused about the next war being an interplanetary one. However, by combining things the same person said at different times and places, one could come up with a reasonable approximation of the original statement. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn.This item is a difficult one to classify: It's literally false as worded, because the person named didn't speak the specific words attributed to him at the time and place claimed (or at any other time and place). “Duty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.
Douglas MacArthur’s Thayer Award Speech, delivered in 1962 at the U.S. On this Veterans Day, we leave you with an excerpt of Gen. For their commitment to country and many other reasons, no institution in America is held in higher regard than the United States military. Even as Hurricane Sandy ripped through the East Coast, forcing the New York Stock Exchange to shut down for an unprecedented two days, soldiers guarded the tomb. The tomb has been guarded every minute of every day since 1937. Inscribed on the tomb are the words: “Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God.”
This afternoon, President Obama recognized our nation’s missing and fallen soldiers by placing a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
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