最著名的演講之一：麥克阿瑟將軍的告別演講

最著名的演講之一：麥克阿瑟將軍的告別演講


1951年4月19日，麥克阿瑟在國會大廈發表了題為《老兵永不死》的著名演講。 ）


MacArthur made his last official appearance in a farewell address to the U.S. Congress. This address, "one of the most impressive and divisive oratorical performances of recent American times", was interrupted by fifty ovations.^[260] （這是他的最後一次官方的演講。被評論為給人們印象最深的，五十次為聽眾鼓掌喝彩的演講）

MacArthur ended the address saying:

　　“我即將結束五十二年的軍旅生涯。我從軍是在本世紀開始之前，而這是我童年的希望與夢想的實現。自從我在西點軍校的教練場上宣誓以來，這個世界已經過多次變化，而我的希望與夢想早已消逝，但我仍記著當時最流行的一首軍歌詞，極為自豪地宣示‘老兵永不死，隻是漸凋零’（Old soldiers never die, they just fade away）。”

（英文全文可讀於：http://www.doc88.com/p-11765048493.html

I am closing my 52 years of military service. When I joined the Army, even before the turn of the century, it was the fulfillment of all of 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 barrack 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.^[261]



他的生平等介紹可讀以下：

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_MacArthur