To The Medieval Mind The Possibility Of

His [gen. Douglas Macarthurs] Twenty-two Medals-thirteen Of Them For Heroism-probably Exceeded Those Of Any Other Figure In American History. He Seemed To Seek Death On Battlefields.

A Man's Task Is To Find Himself, And If He Fails In This, It Doesn't Much Matter What Else He Finds.

He [gen. Douglas Macarthur] Never Went To Church, But He Read The Bible Every Day And Regarded Himself As One Of The World's Two Great Defenders Of Christendom. (the Other Was The Pope.)

I Realized That The Worst Thing That Could Happen To Me Was About To Happen To Me.

They Fought On With A Devotion Which Would Puzzle The Generation Of The 1980s. More Surprising, In Many Instances It Would Have Baffled The Men They Themselves Were Before Pearl Harbor. Among Macarthur's Ardent Infantrymen Were Cooks, Mechanics, Pilots Whose Planes Had Been Shot Down, Seamen Whose Ships Had Been Sunk, And Some Civilian Volunteers.