{"id":519343,"date":"2010-04-07T14:20:04","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T18:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f86\/america-s-greatest-generals-lee-macarthur-41936\/"},"modified":"2010-04-07T14:20:04","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T18:20:04","slug":"america%c2%92s-greatest-generals-lee-and-macarthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519343","title":{"rendered":"America\u0092s Greatest Generals, Lee And MacArthur"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>04.06.10 07:01 PM<\/p>\n<p>In one of those coincidences that history seems to love, the two  greatest generals the United    States has produced\u0097Robert E. Lee and  Douglas MacArthur\u0097both came to the end of their long and distinguished careers  this week\u0085 separated by almost a century.<\/p>\n<p>On April 9, 1865, the not-so Civil War ended at Appomattox, Va.,  as Confederate General Lee surrendered his sword and the 28,000 men under his  command to Union General Ulysses S. Grant. The two generals agreed that all  Confederate soldiers were to be pardoned. After being given a generous portion  of rations, the Southern soldiers were permitted to mount their horses and  return to their homes.<\/p>\n<p>With that meeting the bloodiest conflict in U.S. history was over. At  least the official fighting had come to an end. In the former Confederacy  there\u0092s still a huge market for \u0093The South Shall Rise Again,\u0094 \u0093Forget, Hell!\u0094  and other mementos of the War of Northern Aggression, as it\u0092s frequently  referred to below the Mason-Dixon Line.<\/p>\n<p>Four score and nine years later, on April 11, 1951, General Douglas  MacArthur was removed from his position as commander of United Nations forces  in Korea  by then-President Harry S Truman. MacArthur\u0092s firing followed his public  disclosure that the president refused him permission to bomb the bases and  supply lines in Manchuria. It was from these  lines that Communist China was supplying our enemies in North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>Upon his return to these shores MacArthur enjoyed a hero\u0092s welcome in San Francisco and New    York. The following week he addressed a joint session  of Congress, concluding his remarks by saying, \u0093Old soldiers never die; they  just fade away.\u0094 And that\u0092s basically what Generals Lee and MacArthur\u0097two of  the most honorable men to ever put on the uniform of their country\u0097both did.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u0097Chip Wood<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/chip-wood\/americas-greatest-generals-lee-and-macarthur\/\" >http:\/\/www.personalliberty.com\/chip-&#8230;and-macarthur\/<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>04.06.10 07:01 PM In one of those coincidences that history seems to love, the two greatest generals the United States has produced\u0097Robert E. Lee and Douglas MacArthur\u0097both came to the end of their long and distinguished careers this week\u0085 separated by almost a century. On April 9, 1865, the not-so Civil War ended at Appomattox, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4498,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}