DennisMansfield.com (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
This month of July returned to me the memory of 34 summers ago when I stood at attention as a new Plebe at West Point, The United States Military Academy. History swirled about me. It engulfed me. I spent the next 24 months of my life as a West Point Cadet, enjoying the feel of history under foot. One of the historical icons of West Point is General Douglas MacArthur. While at the Academy,...
Eye On The World (Free subscription) | yesterday
Col. Bud Day is often cited as being the most decorated U.S. service member since General Douglas MacArthur, having received some seventy decorations, a majority for actions in combat. Day is a recipient of the Medal of Honor. ( IsraelNN.com ) Muslim Americans are furious over remarks made by Col. Bud Day, a former comrade in war of Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain....
Financial Time (Free subscription) | yesterday
Barack Obama is . The Iraqi government finds and not with those of the Bush administration or John McCain. He has discussed with Gen David Petraeus the differences between a commander-in-chief and a commander-in-the-field, which presidents have been reluctant to do since Harry Truman fired Douglas Macarthur.And sinking a long-distance basketball shot on the first try, with beautiful left-handed...
JOLLYBLOGGER (Free subscription) | 07/22/2008
... better way to win people to Christ. The greatest revival ever in Japan came as a result of General Douglas Macarthur’s cultural reforms after World War II. They included a new constitution producing a paradigm shift in Japanese thinking: Hirohito was no longer considered divine. Over the next few years, over 2,000,000 Japanese came to faith in Christ. Renewing culture greased the...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Near Incheon, where MacArthur's troops changed the course of the Korean War, a group of aging survivors tell a story not mentioned in official histories or textbooks.
ABS CBN (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
Three American and Filipino veterans will be honored with the Legacy Medal of Honor. They are Col. Edwin Price Ramsey, the last American Cavalry officer and leader of a vast guerrilla resistance movement in Central Philippines; Commodore Ramon Alcaraz, the former Captain of the Q-Boat who escorted Gen. Douglas MacArthur and party through hostile enemies to assume his new assignment in...
