I have known war as few men now living know it. It's very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes.

In its center lies a sunken circular crypt with two marble sarcophagi one for MacArthur the other for Jean who continued to live in the Waldorf Towers until her own death in 2000. He ignored the request. The Australians repulsed the Japanese at Milne Bay but a series of defeats in the Kokoda Track campaign had a depressing effect back in Australia.

In the fighting on the Western Front during World War I he rose to the rank of brigadier general was again nominated for a Medal of Honor and was awarded the DistinguiDouglas MacArthurd Service Cross twice and the Silver Star seven times. Army and the only man ever to become a field marshal in the Philippine Army. Truman on 11 April 1951.