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The coconut trees, lithe and graceful, crowd the beach like a minuet of slender elderly virgins adopting flippant poses.
An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome.
He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] was a great thundering paradox of a man, noble and ignoble, inspiring and outrageous, arrogant and shy, the…
Japanese naval officers in dress whites are frequent guests at Pearl Harbor's officers' mess and are very polite. They always were. Except,…
Actors who have tried to play Churchill and MacArthur have failed abysmally because each of those men was a great actor playing…
They fought on with a devotion which would puzzle the generation of the 1980s. More surprising, in many instances it would have…
I realized that the worst thing that could happen to me was about to happen to me.
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…
He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the…
His [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] own heroes were Lincoln and Washington, and in some ways he resembled them.
It is true that despite occasional gleams of Churchillian eloquence he [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] usually spoke poorly. He was far more effective…
It was his [Gen. Douglas MacArthur's] relationship with the administration In Washington which became poisoned by his egomania. Link upon link the…

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Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships.… — George W. Bush
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