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America's Hidden History | Douglas MacArthur

September 12, 2019

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America's Hidden History

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America's Hidden History | Douglas MacArthur

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- [Narrator] Modern historians have revised,
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rewritten and even deleted entire chapters
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of American history.
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So what are we missing?
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What happened to the history that didn't make the books?
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Join historian David Barton, Tim Barton
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and special guests as they uncover the facts
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some historians don't want you to know.
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This is America's Hidden History.
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(suspenseful theme music)
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- We're in Norfork, Virginia talking about
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the life of Douglas MacArthur.
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Actually standing outside the Douglas MacArthur Memorial,
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the Douglas MacArthur Square.
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Over our shoulder there is a statue of Douglas MacArthur.
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One of only nine men to achieve the rank,
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was a Five Star General.
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There have actually been people that posthumously
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were awarded some, like George Washington.
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- Well yeah, George Washington in 1976 on the Bicentennial
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of the country, President Gerald Ford said,
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George Washington needs to forever be the top general
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in our whole district.
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So he gave him the rank of a Six Star General.
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So that's 1976, so nobody's every going to get the rank
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of George Washington.
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But he came close.
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- In World War II, he was put in charge
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of the Pacific theatre.
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I think people probably might recognize the notion
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when he was leaving the Philippines and he said
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that I will return.
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So there's a few details we know,
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but his story really is fascinating.
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And it actually starts out in the Wild West, so to speak.
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- It really does start out in the Wild West.
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He was born in 1880.
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His father was actually a Lieutenant General
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in the Civil War.
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And his father got the Medal of Honor
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for action at Mission Ridge.
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So his father is a distinguished officer.
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And so Douglas is born on a western post in 1880,
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and he grew up in the west.
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In his own writings, he said, I could ride a horse
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and shoot before I could speak and I could walk.
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So he really did grow up in the Old West,
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a bunch of western forts.
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And then growing up, he decided to go into the military,
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like his father.
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He went to West Point.
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He was at West Point about 1903.
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And in his time at West Point,
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he graduated with real honors.
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He's the third highest ranking cadet ever
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in West Point history.
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- [Tim] Top cadet from his class,
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but that's kinda just the beginning of his military story.
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- Yeah, he stays in the military,
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and as things develop,
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he gets involved in several actions.
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Probably the one that brought him to notoriety
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was something that happened in 1914.
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Mexico had had a revolution,
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and in that revolution, we had some American troops
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down there at one of the forts, at Veracruz.
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And part of the troops he sent into Veracruz
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included this young officer named Douglas MacArthur.
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And for that action, he was nominated
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for the Medal of Honor.
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Now he didn't receive it then,
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but that's a nomination for Medal of Honor,
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which is the highest military award given
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in the United States.
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So after that is all settled,
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we come to a terms of peace.
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The next that happens is World War I breaks out.
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So he's sent over to World War I to fight there.
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And while he's there, he gets in all of this trench warfare.
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For his bravery and his leadership and courage,
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he's awarded seven different silver stars in World War I,
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which is amazing.
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He was actually in the same battle with Sergeant York.
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And Sergeant York is the most decorated hero
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of World War I.
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He got the Medal of Honor.
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So Douglas MacArthur is right there in the same camp
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with all these medals.
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He's also made a General in World War I.
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So he's a Brigadier General.
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And by the way, in the Army, you have a Brigadier General,
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one star.
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You have the Major General, which is two star.
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You have the Lieutenant General, which is three star.
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You have a General, which is four star.
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And then you have a General of the Army,
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which is five star, which is where he ended up.
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So he gets his first star as General,
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and he comes back to the United States.
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And they say, we need to put you in charge
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of training soldiers.
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So he becomes the Commorant at West Point.
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And at West Point, he tries to institute a lot of reforms.
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He tries to change the way the curriculum is run
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because they're still teaching military tactics
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using Civil War battles.
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He goes, no, no, no, we've got World War I.
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We've got a lot newer stuff.
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This is in the twenties when he was Commorant.
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Later in the twenties, the head of the Olympic Committee
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expectantly died, and they said, MacArthur,
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he needs to be the guy to run the Olympic Committee.
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So the 1928 Olympics, he's in charge of
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the American athletes.
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So he gives them this pep talk,
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we're going to Amsterdam.
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He said, we're not going 3.000 miles to lose gracefully.
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So kind of like military troops, gets them all riled up.
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And they go and they win the most medals in the Olympics.
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So he does a great job in the Olympics,
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the Olympic team.
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He's the youngest Major General in the Army.
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And then he's sent to the Philippines.
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Now today, we know the Philippines as an independent nation.
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But that happened after World War II.
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At the time he was in the Army, the Philippines
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was an American territory.
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And so he's sent to the Philippines because
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all this instability is happening in the Pacific area.
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It was all kind of building up.
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And he's sent there to really build a military force
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in the Philippines.
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So he goes there and starts what would be
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the Philippine equivalent of West Point.
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And starts training officers and soldiers.
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He becomes the official Field Marshall of all of
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the Philippines military.
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And so he spends a long time in the Far East,
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training soldiers there, trying to get them ready
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for what happens if they get attacked,
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which eventually did happen in World War II.
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So after all that time in the Philippines,
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and all that he's put in there,
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he decides I've had a long career,
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time to retire, and he does.
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He retires from the military.
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- And it makes sense after the years you've put in,
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and you've served your country.
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You think, you know I've done my job.
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I can step back now, so he stepped back
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until he was needed again.
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And that leads up to World War II.
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(inspirational music)
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We're in Washington D.C. at the World War II Memorial.
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And talking about Douglas MacArthur at the end
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of World War I, as he goes to the Philippines,
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as he's rebuilding the strength of the Philippines,
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really helping the military.
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He retires and thinks I'm really done
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with the military service.
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I helped this nation, I rebuilt their strength
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and their military.
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And so he thinks he's out of this,
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but as escalation and tensions are happening across Europe,
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as Hitler's come to power, war is now breaking out
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in Europe, things are changing in America.
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- Yeah, and they see that change also growing
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in the Pacific area with what the Japanese are doing,
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what they've done in China,
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killing literally millions in China.
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They're moving through the Korean Peninsula.
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And at that point, President Roosevelt recalls
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Douglas MacArthur active duty.
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He says, I want you to take care of the Philippines.
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He makes him the Commander over all of the Philippines,
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all the Far East region.
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And at that point, when he recalled MacArthur to duty,
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MacArthur was a two star General, a Major General.
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The next day, Roosevelt made him a three star General,
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Lieutenant General.
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And then by the end of that month had made him
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a four star General.
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So he's given him charge of everything there
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in the Philippines because they weren't being able
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to stop the Japanese.
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They're allies of Hitler, so they wanted to be able
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to stop it there.
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Well, when the Japanese hit Pearl Harbor
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on December seventh,
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and they wiped out so much of the fleet,
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it's the next day that they hit the Philippines.
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And they wipe out all of MacArthur's Air Force.
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He has no Air Force anymore.
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So just a few weeks later, President Roosevelt
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orders that Douglas MacArthur abandon the Philippines.
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And he didn't want to do that.
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That's where he wanted to live.
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That's where his heart is.
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He moved all of his possessions to the Philippines.
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That was going to be where he lived
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the rest of his life,
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and now he's been ordered to abandon it.
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So his heart is with the Philippine people.
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He gives his famous speech that says,
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I shall return.
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I mean he gives them a promise, I'm coming back.
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We're not going to let this stand.
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So he goes to Australia, and in Australia
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he starts an operation to start taking the Pacific back
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from the Japanese.
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We often hear in school what's called island hopping,
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the strategy that the allies hop from island to island.
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Actually MacArthur said, no way.
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He said that's really predictable.
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He said I want Operation Cartwheel.
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And so instead of going from island to island,
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he would hop way ahead to islands.
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And the Japanese didn't know where he was going to hit next.
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And so slowly over a period of time,
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they start taking back islands in the Pacific.
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So it's in October of 1944 that he does return
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to the Philippines.
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And he walks out, gets out of the boat,
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goes on the beach.
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Says to the people of the Philippines, I have returned.
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And that to this day is one of the greatest reasons,
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we're told even today, the Far East has great respect
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for America because we kept our word.
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And by the way, it was about a month after that
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that Congress passed a law that says,
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we're going to allow some five star Generals,
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we've never had that before.
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We're going to do that.
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And so at that point, MacArthur is made
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one of the those five star Generals.
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As we mentioned earlier, there's only five Army guys
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who've ever obtained that rank.
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So now he's back in the Philippines,
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and they start fighting to retake the Philippines.
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But they have the Battle of Manila,
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and it goes on for a long time.
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The Japanese have almost 300.000 soldiers there
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at Manila, but because he loves the Philippines,
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he would allow now air strikes on the Japanese.
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He did not want to destroy Manila,
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he didn't want to destroy the Philippines.
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It made it tough because he allowed the civilians
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to come and go as they wanted.
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He would not impede their progress.
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And the Japanese were killing and massacring civilians
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everywhere, but he was gonna try to preserve
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the Philippines and he did.
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And so eventually as he orchestrates all the stuff
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during the Pacific, we come to the point that
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he's preparing for what's called Operation Downfall.
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And that is, we have got to bring Japan to their knees.
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We had to do a D Day invasion in Europe
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to bring Hitler to his knees.
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So we're gonna do a D Day type of invasion in Japan.
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And so as they're getting ready to do that,
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the estimates come back.
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If we do this, the Japanese people are not like the Germans.
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They do not give up.
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They're gonna fight to the death.
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They think that death is a glorious thing.
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Their ancestors and so it's a whole different mentality.
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And the estimates come back that we're looking at probably
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one million Americans will die if we invade Japan.
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Two to four million allies will die.
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And we think we'll have to kill between
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five and 10 million Japanese before they surrender.
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And it's at the point that President Truman said no,
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we have a bomb that we'll use.
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We're not gonna cause all that loss of life.
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And so dropping two bombs cost about 300.000 Japanese lives,
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but no ally lives.
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And so dropping bombs probably saved somewhere between
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2 and up to 15 million lives.
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And at that point, the Japanese do surrender.
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And it's MacArthur that whom they surrender.
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And so on the U.S.S. Missouri is where they signed
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the peace treaty that ends World War II.
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And MacArthur has taken and done in the Pacific
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what Eisenhower had done over on the Atlantic side
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in Europe.
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So World War II comes to an end
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right there under the supervision
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of General Douglas MacArthur.
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(upbeat music)
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- Hey everyone, back here in the WallBuilders Collection,
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this time going through the archives
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looking for things that deal with World War II
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and General MacArthur.
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We actually have a lot of stuff.
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This is one of the helmet's they had.
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We've got a bayonet right here from an M1 Garand,
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so it probably saw a lot of action back in the war,
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especially over in the Pacific theatre.
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In fact, we've got a wartime paper.
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This is after the Nazis have surrendered,
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but they're still fighting the Pacific theatre,
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where General MacArthur was the head ally Commander.
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So we've got, right, this is a picture
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that they actually found off of a captured Japanese soldier.
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It shows a beheading of an allied prisoner
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because of the atrocities that MacArthur was dealing with
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really are hard to even fathom in today's world.
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Over here, we've got a number of Bibles
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from World War II.
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Because right the soldiers are going in
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and dealing with that, there's one thing that they need,
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and that's the word of God.
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This is actually called a heart shield Bible.
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It's got an engraving saying,
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may this keep you save from harm.
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And that's a steel plate on the front of it,
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so they would drop that in their pocket,
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in their breast pocket.
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And a lot of soldiers actually came back,
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and they said this is what saved my life
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because it caught a bullet
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and was actually able to stop it from hurting him.
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So we've got a lot of things from World War II.
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We also have some original artifacts from General MacArthur.
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So this right here is actually the Proclamation
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that he gave when he landed on the Philippines.
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So this is his famous, I have returned, speech.
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And he says, I have returned.
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By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again
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on Philippine soil.
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Soil consecrated in the blood of our two peoples.
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In the name of your sacred dead, strike.
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Let no heart by faint.
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Let every arm be steeled.
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The guidance of divine God points the way.
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Follow in His name to the Holy Grail of righteous victory.
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So this is the speech that he gave when he landed
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back on the Philippines.
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We've got a lot of artifacts down here in the collection
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that really help us get a better idea on some of
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these big characters from history,
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one of those being General MacArthur.
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(inspirational music)
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- So the war has come to an end,
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but now you have to rebuild Japan.
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You know, we couldn't just walk off and leave them
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to their own devices because
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they brought this on themselves.
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That's not the way America is.
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And so just as in Europe, we're rebuilding
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and trying to get it back to a civilized
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fully functioning area.
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The same thing is trying to be done over in Japan.
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And President Truman puts Douglas MacArthur
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in charge of rebuilding all of Japan.
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And that's a big deal
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because the mentality is so different.
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Th Emperor, for example, he's considered not as a God,
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he's considered to be God.
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And they have military Shintoism,
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and that military mindset that conquering
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is what is required for us to do.
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And the role of women is just not there at all.
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They don't have a constitution.
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Their economic system, even the land use,
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most of the land is owned by a handful of people.
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And they had all these tenet farmers working on it,
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so there's not private property to speak of.
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So MacArthur comes in to be in charge of rebuilding.
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And he recognizes, you gotta have the whole mindset here.
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So interestingly, the first thing MacArthur does
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is says I need missionaries.
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I need a bunch of Christian missionaries over here.
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We need the Bible.
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And so 5.000 missionaries respond and come into Japan.
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And within a short period of time,
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the Bible becomes one of the best selling books in Japan.
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So he administers the rebuilding of Japan.
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He puts a constitution in place.
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He abolishes military Shintoism.
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It's interesting, the first time he met the Emperor,
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now remember, the people think the Emperor is God.
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And the Japanese media would only take a picture
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of the Emperor, who actually was a very short, small guy,
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upwards so he looked really big.
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There was never anyone else in the picture
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because they wouldn't see how big he was.
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And the people thought he was this huge guy.
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MacArthur goes in, who is a huge guy,
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and here's the little Emperor,
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and they take a press picture of that.
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And the Japanese press is terrified, horrified.
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You can't release that.
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He said, no, we're going to release this.
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So he had every newspaper in Japan run that picture
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of him towering over the Emperor.
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And they're all, oh my gosh, they've just never
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seen anything like this.
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And so it gives a mindset from the very beginning
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of who's in charge here.
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And he is so thorough in making those changes
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that within only seven years Japan is fully voted
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back into the community of World Nations.
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Such a transformation happening
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in such a short period of time,
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to such really an economic powerhouse, a powerful nation.
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Women have rights.
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There's land ownership.
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Things that have not been done in Japan
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literally in centuries and even in millennia,
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he's brought those subsequent changes.
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But there's another conflict on the horizon
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already taking place.
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(inspirational music)
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So with the surrender of Japan,
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World War II comes to a close.
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Douglas MacArthur oversees the rebuilding,
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the supervision of the remaking of Japan.
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But simultaneously in that same period of time,
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we're trying to decide what to you do with
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what used to be the Japanese Empire?
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Because Japan in previous decades had taken in
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so much territory.
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They had taken in so many of the nations,
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including Korea.
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And so now that Japan no longer has control over nations
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like Korea, you have to decide what are you
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going to do with them?
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How do you rebuild?
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How to do you restore?
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And so within that framework, they decided okay,
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among the allied nations we'll see who supervises what area.
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And so the Soviet Union was given supervision
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over the northern part of Korea.
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America was given supervision over
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the southern part of Korea.
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And so it kind of becomes a protectant of America
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until it rebuilds itself, gets back on its feet.
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And in 1950, the North Koreans invade into South Korea.
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Well that's the American protector.
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We gotta defend the South Koreans.
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And so the U.N. gets involved,
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and says no, no, no, we've got to stop this.
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And so the U.N. says we need to defend South Korea
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from the aggression of North Koreans.
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And Douglas MacArthur is made the Commander in Chief
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of all the forces there to defend South Korea.
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So now he's involved in the Korean War,
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and he's in charge of that war.
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And so it's going pretty well all along the way there.
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We're getting North Koreans pushed back,
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and then it turns out that Chinese get involved.
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And here come 300.000 Chinese troops
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that hadn't been planned on,
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which kinda changes the direction of the war.
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- It still doesn't slow down the idea
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that Douglas MacArthur.
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He thought, hey that's no problem.
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We'll take on whatever bully wants to fight us,
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and he said let's just go to China.
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And we'll just beat the Chinese.
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But Harry Truman realized, wait a second,
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China and the Soviet Union have made a deal
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that if one of them gets attacked and invaded,
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they're going to defend and protect the other one.
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And so arguably, Harry Truman's just thinking,
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we can't have another World War.
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And so he starts trying to pull back the reigns,
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what can we do to end this conflict
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without having major fighting more than we already have?
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- Let's negotiate, find a way to get out of this.
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- [Tim] Which is not what MacArthur wants to do.
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MacArthur is the warrior, he's a fighter, he's a winner.
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He says let's find a way to conquer these people
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that are trying to attack and want to do these things.
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- And his concern was if we didn't,
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we're gonna be doing this again later.
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I mean if you don't defeat the enemy now,
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you're gonna have to face this same enemy at some point.
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So let's get this stopped right here.
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- And that just wasn't integral to Harry Truman.
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Harry Truman says no, we have to negotiate.
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We can't go to war with the Chinese and the Soviet Union.
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We need to find a way to just kind of
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calm this down right now.
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So this really brought a chasm between MacArthur and Truman,
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even more than what was already there,
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that really they just weren't able
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to bridge this gap anymore.
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- The problem is, the chasm becomes public.
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MacArthur goes public with what should be done for victory.
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And Truman over here is trying to
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move a different direction.
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So now you have five star General
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contradicting the President.
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Well the President is the Commander in Chief.
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He is in charge of the military.
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And so at that point is when Truman
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essentially fires MacArthur.
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He removes him, replaces him.
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And that pretty much kind of ends
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MacArthur's career at that point.
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Now the interesting thing about a five star General is
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they're never allowed to retire.
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You can never retire as a five star General.
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You are always in active duty.
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And so he comes back to the United States.
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He gives a speech to Congress,
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and man is there an enthusiastic response.
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More than 50 times Congress interrupted his speech
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because he is a hero.
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- Interrupted to give ovations, by the way.
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- Ovations, that's right, ovations.
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- This was very well received.
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They love this man.
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- He's had more than 100 military decorations
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throughout his career.
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I mean this is a true American hero.
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And it's interesting, even though Truman kind of
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had to do that, you can't let a subordinate take you on.
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Truman's popularity fell to 20%.
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That's the lowest favorability rating
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any President on record since they've been doing polls.
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The American public, the American Congress,
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they were all behind Douglas MacArthur.
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And that's where he gave the famous speech that
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all soldiers don't die, they just fade away.
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And so he did kind of fade, but he also became
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a counselor to subsequent Presidents.
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For example, he told John F. Kennedy,
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stay out of Vietnam.
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And then Kennedy is killed,
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and President Johnson comes in.
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And he says, stay out of Vietnam.
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And so he's still giving counsel to Presidents
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right up until the latter stages of his life.
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(inspirational music)
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The remarkable life of Douglas MacArthur
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comes to a close in 1964.
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And at that point, he is buried here.
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Now this originally was a city hall back in 1850,
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and in 1960, the Mayor of Norfolk says,
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we're gonna do a new city hall.
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Let's take the old one and make it as a memorial
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for Douglas MacArthur whenever he passes away.
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And they did.
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And we're surrounded here with his military medals
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and with his life and so much of what he did,
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World War II, Korea, World War I,
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it's all here.
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As you look back over the life of MacArthur,
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here's a guy who loved his country,
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sacrificed much for his country,
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did much to help his country and the world,
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but he was also a family guy.
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You look back at his own life with his father,
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his father and the son, Douglas MacArthur
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both were awarded with the Medal of Honor.
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Actually one of Douglas MacArthur's early assignments
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was as a staff member to his father.
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So he served on the staff of his father,
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the relationship there.
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Douglas has his own son, and it's interesting
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that in 1942 he's honored as the Father of the Year,
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right in the middle of World War II.
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And at that point in time, he brought a great perspective
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to be both a father and a warrior.
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And this is what he said,
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by profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact,
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but I'm prouder, infinitely prouder to be a father.
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A soldier destroys in order to build.
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The father only builds, never destroys.
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The one has the potentialities of death,
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the other embodies creation and life.
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And while the hordes of death are mighty,
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the battalions of life are mightier still.
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It is my hope that my son when I'm gone
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will remember me not from battle,
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but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer,
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Our Father Who art in Heaven.
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It's great perspective, and it's about that time
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that what we now know as a father's prayer
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was made public and came out surrounding Douglas MacArthur.
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So he has a great life, great perspective,
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he's a man who loved his kids, he loved his family,
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he loved his country, and he loved his God.
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- And like many incredible people from American history,
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sometimes we know their name,
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we don't often know their story.
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And Douglas MacArthur's story is just one more
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of America's great hidden heroes.
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(peaceful music)
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My disappointments and one of my favorite things
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about MacArthur related to his story,
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I'm a little disappointed we didn't
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go to the Philippines.
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I'm not sure if we adjusted the budget,
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but I feel like you know what, next time
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we should just, or Japan, we should make this
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an international trip.
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I did come away with a MacArthur look alike pipe.
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I don't know what I'm going to do with it,
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but I have a souvenir.
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He's just such an interesting guy to learn more about
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and recognizing the significance of what he did,
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the influence he had, the voice he had
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with the Presidents, even after World War II.
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He's just such an interesting story.
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- The thing that stands out to me about him
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is confidence, and he had a lot of confidence.
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He had a heavy dose of confidence.
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He knew what he could do.
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- But you can't be a General without some confidence
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at some level.
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- Well especially a four star General.
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- Right.
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- Without having accomplished stuff,
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what he did at West Point and everything else.
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And I think a good example of that and how others
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around him often, I don't know if they were jealous of it
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or misinterpreted it or what,
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but when he says to the Philippines, I shall return,
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the War Department says, no, no, no.
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We shall return.
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He said, no, no, I shall return.
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And then the order comes out, he says,
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I have returned.
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And it was I, and so others said,
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it's all about him.
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Well in some ways it was because he knew
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what he could get done.
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- Right.
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- And that confidence, when you got a bold confidence
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knowing what you can do, other people around you
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that have less confidence or want to do it differently,
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you're gonna have some conflicts with Generals.
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- Sure.
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- But I look at the results of what he did,
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not only in the Pacific theatre,
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but I am just amazed that you can go in
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to the Japanese culture,
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which has been that way for decades,
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for generations, for centuries,
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and in seven years you can completely transform
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a nation economically, politically, religiously,
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to where the rest of the world says, oh yeah,
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we want you guys back in with us.
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And you're accepted back into the world of nations
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in seven years.
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- [Tim] Yeah.
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- I mean what MacArthur did borders on the fantastic
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in so many ways, and at the same time
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he keeps the perspective that yeah I'm a soldier,
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but I'm a father as well.
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And so his relationship with his wife and his son,
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it's amazing stuff.
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- As people are wanting to be leaders,
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there's definitely some takeaways you can learn from him,
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where you have to have a moral conviction
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and stand on that.
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When he says, I will return, it's because,
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I mean in my mind I'm thinkin', well yeah,
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I'm not giving you a promise from the Federal Government,
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I'm giving my word.
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I can't control what they do.
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- That's right.
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- I can control what I do.
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- I will do that.
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- And again, to me, that's that moral clarity
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where he was going to be a person of truth,
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and he was going to tell you what he thought
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and stand by what he thought.
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And I think as a leader, he sets some
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really great examples, lessons that we can learn from,
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certainly as we look back through American history.
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