64 Years Ago, US Army General Douglas MacArthur’s Line on ‘Deepest Wounds and Scars of War’ Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

64 Years Ago, US Army General Douglas MacArthur’s Line on ‘Deepest Wounds and Scars of War’ Is Still One of the Greatest Military Quotes in Armed Forces History

“The soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war,” Gen. Douglas MacArthur told the cadets at West Point on May 12, 1962, in the “Duty, Honor, Country” farewell he gave on receiving the Sylvanus Thayer Award, ailing and less than two years from his death. The line came right after his warning that a million ghosts in olive drab would rise from their white crosses if …