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...These Are My Own Men." Douglas MacArthur went back to the staff car and drove off. His next stop was a hospital where some of the rescued veterans of Bataan and Corregidor were lodged. "These are my own men and I am one of them," he said. "I owe them a lot. I promised I would return, and I'm long overdue. . . " Down through a double line of cots the General strode, pausing at bedside after bedside. Down the gaunt faces ran the unashamed tears of fighting men - now the wasted victims of malnutrition and dysentery. Said MacArthur...
...later told a gathering of West Pointers: "I owe West Point a great debt of gratitude. The realization that its graduates had much that I did not has spurred me to acquire what I lacked. . . . West Point has probably done more for me than it has for many of you." Both his sons owe their debt direct to West Point: Colonel James Norvell Krueger ('26), recently returned from Northern Ireland, and Colonel Walter Krueger Jr. ('31), at Camp Bowie...
Personally, I owe my hide to some Fijian Scouts on Bougainville. And the Fijians are not exactly white. As a matter of fact, they are quite sunburned. But all these peoples are fighting on our side to preserve our freedom to hate them...
Budget Director Harold Smith had reckoned that by mid-1946 the U.S. would owe its citizens and institutions $292 billion on Government borrowing. This was nearly $61 billion more than it now owes them, $32 billion more than the law allows. Franklin Roosevelt served the obvious notice that during the year Congress would be asked to raise the U.S. debt limit, make more U.S. borrowing legal...
...garrison life of India, on the reefs of South Africa, the maternal home, and the conversation of wealthy, conservative households, is a pitiful jumble of nonsense. . . . He has served his purpose and it is high time he retired upon his laurels before we forget the debt we owe him. His last associations with the various European royalties who share his belief in the invincible snobbishness of mankind . . . are his final farewell to human confidence...