Letter: Don't forget about Gen. Douglas McArthur

By: Letters to the Editor | Dothan Eagle
Published: October 28, 2009

With regard to a Sept. 3 photograph from a ceremony aboard the USS Missouri marking the 64th anniverary of the end of World War II, as a matter of information and to further educate our younger generation on what took place on the battleship USS Missouri on Sept., 2, 1945, I submit a copy of the terms of surrender from our commander in charge of that momentous occasion abord that great battleship.

The man in charge of that ceremony was Gen. Douglas McArthur, one of America’s compelling military heroes of our time — a 5-star general, the supreme commander of the allied South Pacific forces during World War II, a West Pointer for sure, and I believe he was at the top of his class.

This hero’s motto, with which he well challenged a graduating class at West Point in his final public appearance, was “Duty, Honor, Country.”

“And now, as I close in my final appearace, I bid you goodbye and say to you, ‘Old soldiers never die; they just fade away’” — and he did!

There is a need to rewrite the rewritten history books in our country.

Jesse L. Sharpe
Ozark