When the name MacArthur is mentioned, I think the vast majority of military fans will not be unfamiliar. He was a graduate of the United States Military Academy, West Point, a world war I and World War II, and served as commander of the U.S. Far East Army and commander of the Allied Forces in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II.
His life was a great achievement, and he was awarded the rank of five-star colonel in the Army and the highest award of the West Point Military Academy, the Sylvinus Thayer Medal of Honor...
In the United States, he was a well-known veteran and highly respected, but he was such a prominent figure who was also tried in the court when he was young, and in the courtroom he had weak legs and sweat, and begged the judge to spare him.
Why did the well-behaved MacArthur go to court? And why was he so frightened that he had always been majestic in the courtroom?
"Newborn calves are afraid of tigers"
In 1880, Douglas MacArthur was born in a small military family in the United States, and he was influenced by the ideas of his military father from an early age, and at a very young age, he aspired to become a soldier and serve the motherland.
At the age of 18, MacArthur was admitted to the United States Military Academy at West Point, and before entering the school, he must not have thought that his next year's military school life would bring him all kinds of pain.
Upon admission, all the new students were placed in the "Beast Bootcamp", which, as the name suggests, is inhuman. Its system is that veterans manage recruits, that is, a group of people who have just escaped from the sea of suffering, and they must continue to re-experience what they have experienced in the training camp for new students, and even become more intense.
Just like that, a group of young teenagers entered jack's valley, the back hill of West Point, and began training in a dense, heavily organized jungle.
Under the famous saying of the military academy: "Reasonable requirements are training, unreasonable requirements are tempering", the cadets conduct 14 hours of super long training every day, covering all aspects, and at the end of the day, everyone's training clothes will be wet and dry countless times, but this does not prevent them from continuing normal training the next day.
Like most veterans in the world managing recruits, West Point veterans adhere to three principles: punishment for disobedience, fighting until the task is completed, and repairing to obeying orders if they are not obeyed.
Therefore, humiliating training also often occurs in the beast training camp, in the cold and windy forest in winter, the freshmen are asked to strip off their shirts, stand in broken glass, half-crouch, and extend their arms at the same time, like the "Roc" waving their arms, constantly swinging their arms up and down, while their feet also need to move up and down with their hands.
Most of them shivered incessantly from the cold, but this did not arouse sympathy from the veterans, and finally after several training sessions, MacArthur fell down, and even for a long time afterward, his legs would tremble involuntarily.
In the military academy where obedience is everything, a group of spirited teenagers "newborn calves are afraid of tigers", but after a year of devil training, something even more unexpected happened to MacArthur.
One goes to court
Just as MacArthur was relieved that his training was nearing its end, suddenly news came that Buzi, who had entered the school at the same time as him, had died, and his family had taken the school to court, accusing him of poor management and that Buzi had been subjected to inhuman abuse at the school.
Let's turn the wheel of time back to a year ago, when he first entered school, there was a boxing match on campus, and Buzi was quickly defeated by his opponent, and he refused to continue playing, as punishment for not playing, the veterans coaxed him to take off his military uniform, and Buzi strongly refused, and it was this refusal that made his year of military school life suffer.
At each subsequent meal time, Buzi was asked to drink a large amount of soy sauce, which lasted for a year, and finally he was humiliated and dropped out of school, and died shortly after dropping out.
So his family attributed his death to the abuse he had suffered at school, and in fact it was later learned that he had died of tuberculosis, but because of the reputation of the school, the court took the case strictly.
As a witness to the day's boxing match and a classmate of Buzi' classmates, MacArthur was also called by the court as a witness.
In a solemn atmosphere, the 19-year-old MacArthur felt extremely nervous for the first time, because he did not dare to tell the judge the name of the perpetrator, which meant revenge and ridicule, but the consequence of not saying it was to be ordered to leave school, and the dream of a soldier would be in vain.
In his seat, sweating profusely and his legs so weak that he even needed help, he said his father's name in a hurry to beg the judge to spare him.
But the evidence speaks, and the overwhelming evidence that MacArthur somehow knew the truth, and finally with the help of his mother, he said the names of some of the students who had left school, and finally escaped the disaster.
Go to court again
It was also because he exposed his identity as the son of a famous general that attracted the attention of many media, and soon after it was revealed that he himself had been abused at the West Point Military Academy, the court summoned him again.
Once born twice, he went to court again, and unlike the last time his legs were weak and sweaty, he seemed very calm.
In the face of sharp questions, he answered the questions fluently, such as asking him whether his legs were the sequelae of abuse from time to time, which he denied, and explained that it was not abuse caused by excessive fatigue, because all his classmates and his training intensity were the same.
When he was directly asked the name of the abuser, he calmly said: "All veterans treat us freshmen equally, and they all want to hone us to be brave and tenacious, not afraid of hardship, and there is no abuse at all." ”
The judge could not refute his words and finally terminated the summons, but this summons made MacArthur's name known to the whole school, not only because he was the son of the general, but also because he maintained the reputation of the school and the students, and his classmates said: "MacArthur is not destined to be an ordinary person!" ”
brief summary:
It can be seen that great generals are not born as great generals, and when they encounter difficult problems, they will sweat and tremble like ordinary people, but the reason why great generals are great generals is because they are not afraid of such embarrassment, and they have the courage to face themselves and face their own shadows, which is not an easy task.
It was under the polishing of setbacks and sufferings that MacArthur grew step by step, and finally realized the dream of a general and became an example for countless people.