Douglas MacArthur Quotes

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.

Douglas MacArthur

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• They looked at each other. Like they knew everything about each other. Like that. But what exactly did they know, these strangers who were so familiar and intimate? You fought a war with someone, and you knew them. But you only knew the part that was in the war, the part that knew how to fight. The other part, the pedestrian part that lived in the endless calmness of days, you didn’t know that part.

  

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• 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.

  

  Douglas MacArthur
  • War
  • Peace
  • Soldier