Word: epitaph
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Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright hauled down his flag, threw himself and his men on the mercy of the little conqueror, went off with them to share the nation's degradation. Far to the South, in Australia, General MacArthur penned his memorable epitaph: "Corregidor needs no comment from me. . . . Through the bloody haze of its last reverberating shot I shall always seem to see the vision of its grim, gaunt and ghostly...
Hindsight. Not only was the epitaph pronounced but a postmortem was written by the Army and Navy Journal...
...Washington, War Secretary Stimson pronounced the epitaph on the latest Allied attack: "The simple fact is the Germans stopped...
Then with this humble, heartfelt epitaph...
This week 36-year-old Mush Morton and the Wahoo were safe in history. The Sub Base had given up looking for them over the grey waters of Pearl Harbor. Under the Wahoo's name the Navy wrote the submariner's grim epitaph: "Overdue, must be presumed to be lost...