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| From | djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) |
| Subject | Re: Can anyone remember...? |
| Message-ID | <nvnG8F.73L@kithrup.com> (permalink) |
| Date | 2015-10-03 14:57 +0000 |
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In article <4a00312d-3b32-461a-b4cf-88db24cfb311@googlegroups.com>, <patmpowers@gmail.com> wrote: >On Friday, October 2, 2015 at 10:30:05 PM UTC-4, Dorothy J Heydt wrote: >> "old soldiers never >> die, they just fade away" > >When I was young I used to say that all the time. I had no idea where >it came from or what it meant. Well, he was quoting a song. My father used to sing it sometimes. I found references to two perofmrances of it, both dated 1951, which is the year MacArthur quoted it. But here's the text of what he said: "I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of my boyish hopes and dreams. The world has turned over many times since I took the oath on the plain at West Point, and the hopes and dreams have long since vanished, but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular barrack ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that "old soldiers never die; they just fade away." "And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away, an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. " So it is not the case, as I had begun to think for a moment while googling, that somebody had written the song based on MacArthur's speech. Here's what Truman said about him: "I fired him because he wouldn't respect the authority of the president. That's the answer to that. I didn't fire him because he was a dumb son of a bitch, although he was, but that's not against the law for generals. If it was, half to three-quarters of them would be in jail. " (Source, Wikiquotes.) -- Dorothy J. Heydt Vallejo, California djheydt at gmail dot com Should you wish to email me, you'd better use the gmail edress. Kithrup's all spammy and hotmail's been hacked.
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