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Re: Kings never die...( Pale Fire)
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In a message dated 04/08/2006 16:54:44 GMT Standard Time, post@DEZIMMER.NET
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It wasn't General Patton but General Douglas McArthur. I heard him say so in
1951 on our new high school tv, and the whole student body was duly
impressed, many wept. As far as I remember, we were told McArthur had been quoting
from an old American soldiers' song: "Old soldiers never die, they only fade
away".
Dieter Zimmer, Berlin
According to the Penguin Dictionary of Quotations this is a line from a song
of the 1914-1918 war. It would seem to me more probably British than
American, but I may be wrong. The author is given as Anonymous.
Charles Harrison Wallace
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