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.. Why Gun Control Groups Have Moved Away from an Assault Weapons Ban ..
.. Chief of Army’s Reading List ..
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From The Irony of Manifest Destiny (William Pfaff) p 168-9
In the Second World War, General of the Army George C. Marshall, army chief of staff and later Harry S. Truman’s secretary of state, never wore on his uniform the decorations and service ribbons to which his First World War service entitled him. He said that it would be unseemly for him, working in a Washington office, to wear honors deserved by the young men he was responsible for sending into battle. (Compare U.S. general officers today, who even when wearing combat camouflage are decorated like operetta supernumeraries.) Following the war, Marshall was offered a million (1945) dollars for his memoirs, but he refused, saying that it would not be correct for him to profit from his public duties. This ethic was reflected in public behavior until, I suppose, the time of Vietnam – implicated in so much that has gone bad in the United States.
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