1:56:04
"Why... "
1:56:07
"Why," my soldiers
asked of me,
1:56:12
"surrender military advantages
to an enemy in the field?"
1:56:21
I could not answer.
1:56:25
The magnificence
of the courage...
1:56:29
and fortitude
of the Korean people...
1:56:33
defies description.
1:56:38
They have chosen
to risk death...
1:56:42
rather than slavery.
1:56:46
Their last words
to me were...
1:56:51
"Don't scuttle
the Pacific. "
1:57:06
I am closing my 52 years
of military service.
1:57:13
When I joined the army, even
before the turn of the century...
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it was the fulfillment of all
my boyish hopes and dreams.
1:57:25
The world
has turned over many times...
1:57:27
since I took the oath
on the plain at West Point...
1:57:32
and the hopes and dreams
have long since vanished.
1:57:38
But I still remember
the refrain...
1:57:40
of one of the most popular
barrack ballads of that day...
1:57:46
which proclaimed
most proudly that...
1:57:50
"Old soldiers never die...
1:57:56
they just... fade away. "