"The soldier, above all other men, is required to perfom the highest act of religious teaching - sacrifice. In battle and in the face of danger and death he discloses those divine attributes which his Maker gave when He created man in his own image. No physical courage and no brute instincts can take the palce of the divine annuncation and spiritual uplift which will alone sustain him. However horrible the incidents of war may be, the soldier who is called upon to offer and to give his life for his country is the noblest develoment of mankind."~ General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, 14 July 1935, address to the verterans of the Rainbow (42nd) Division, A Soldier Speaks, 1965
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