GENERAL MACARTHUR ~ BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1880

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General Douglas MacArthur  was a Chief of Staff of the United States Army during
the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War ll. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Philippines Campaign. He was one
of only five men ever to rise to the rank of five-star general in the U.S. Army, and the 
only man ever to become a field marshal in the Philippine Army. MacArthur died on 
April 5, 1964 of liver disease. He was 84 years old.

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          General MacArthur(center)returning to the Philippines as he had promised

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GENERAL BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1813

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Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson was a Confederate general during the Civil War, and probably the most well-known Confederate commander after General Robert
E. Lee. His military career includes the Valley Campaign of 1862 and his service as a corps commander in the Army of Northern Virginia under Robert E. Lee. He died of
complications of pneumonia on May 10, 1863 at the age of 39. Military historians
consider Jackson to be one of the most gifted tactical commanders in U.S. history. 

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                  Monument of Stonewall Jackson in Richmond, Virginia

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IT WAS ON THIS DATE IN 1777

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General George Washington lead his army of nearly 11,000 poorly
nourished and battle fatigued men to the Valley Forge military camp
of the Continental Army in Pennsylvania. The ill-equipped army spent 
the winter there during the Revolutionary War. At one point the supply shortages caused nearly 4,000 men to be listed as unfit for duty. About
half of these men died from sickness and disease.

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Valley Forge became a National Historical Park in 1976.

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               George Washington’s headquarters

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CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER IS 81 NOW

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Christopher Plummer as Captain Georg Von Trapp in
Sound of Music,1965.

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Christopher portrayed the Klingon General Chang in 
Star Trek VI: The undiscovered Country,1991.

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GEN. PATTON, BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1885

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General George Smith Patton, Jr. was  a Commanding General of the 
United States Army during the second World War. He was also well 
known for his controversial outspokenness.

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