"Old Soldiers Never Die"Speech・ 2016年5月3日（火）

　"Old Soldiers Never Die"Speech　by Douglas A. MacArthur
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　I have just left your fighting sons in Korea.
They have met all tests there,and I can report to you without reservation,
they are splendid in every way.
It was my constant effort to preserve them and end this savage conflict
honorably and with the least loss of time and a minimum sacrifice of life.
Its growing bloodshed has caused me the deepest anguish and anxiety.
Those gallant men will remain often in my thoughts and in my prayers always.
I am closeing my fifty-two years of military service.
When I joined the army,even before the turn of the century,it was the
fulfillment of all my boyish hopes and dreams.
The world has turned over many times since
I took the oath on the plain at West Point,and the hopes and dreams have long
since vanished,but I still remember the refrain of one of the most popular
barracks ballads of that day which proclaimed most proudly that old soldiers
never die;they just fade away.
And like the old soldier of that ballad,I now close my military career and
just fade away,an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light
to see that duty,Good-bye.