The Sum Of A Million Facts Is

But There Are No Loners. No Man Lives In A Void. His Every Act Is Conditioned By His Time And His Society.

The Coconut Trees, Lithe And Graceful, Crowd The Beach Like A Minuet Of Slender Elderly Virgins Adopting Flippant Poses.

He [gen. Douglas Macarthur] Never Went To Church, But He Read The Bible Every Day And Regarded Himself As One Of The World's Two Great Defenders Of Christendom. (the Other Was The Pope.)

Men Do Not Fight For Flag Or Country, For The Marine Corps Or Glory Or Any Other Abstraction. They Fight For One Another. And If You Came Through This Ordeal, You Would Age With Dignity.

It Was His [gen. Douglas Macarthur's] Relationship With The Administration In Washington Which Became Poisoned By His Egomania. Link Upon Link The Bond Between Events On The Battlefield And His Own Ruin Was Forged, And, As Is Essential In Genuine Tragedy, The Gods Used The Victim Himself To Forge The Links.