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We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction.
Douglas MacArthur
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Douglas MacArthur
Age: 84 †
Born: 1880
Born: January 26
Died: 1964
Died: April 5
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Arkansas
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A soldier plods and groans, sweats and toils, he growls and curses, and at the end he dies.
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