In the military history of the United States, there is such a genius. He was the only general to have fought in two world wars and the Korean War, and the most awarded to the U.S. Army, Navy, and Air Force; he was the youngest brigadier general in the United States, the youngest principal of the United States Military Academy at West Point, and the youngest chief of staff of staff in the history of the U.S. Army.
Affectionately known to the American people as the "veteran of a generation," he was Douglas MacArthur.
When MacArthur is mentioned, people's first impression of him is often the "strategizing in the planning, decisive victory thousands of miles away" on the battlefield, or "in the midst of talking and laughing, the tree ashes and smoke" heroic, so that the enemy smells frightened.
But according to MacArthur's memoirs, he also encountered school bullying when he was a child, and when faced with school bullying, he chose to suffer in silence, and even when he was tried, he was frightened and weak, sweating, and begged the judge to let him go.
New to campus
In 1881, Douglas MacArthur was born in a military family, his father was the famous American soldier Arthur MacArthur, influenced by his father, the young MacArthur also wanted to be a soldier, so in 1899, MacArthur through hard work into the West Point Military Academy, and the first class to enter the military school is to learn to obey.
"If you don't obey, you are not qualified to command", this is the famous saying of West Point, indeed, obeying orders and rules is the duty of soldiers, however, in the face of new students like MacArthur, the old students began to rely on this famous saying to give the new students a dismount.
In physical training, because it is the school's old students who train the new students, there will be various privileges, and the emergence of power will make those old students begin to abuse, beat, and even abuse the new students, once caught, there will still be reasons to excuse themselves, which makes them more fearless.
Although MacArthur's father was a well-known American soldier at the time, no one gave him the privilege, and at the military academy he attended a year-long beast training camp like other freshmen.
In beast camps, they are often subjected to humiliating training. At one point, they were asked to strip naked, tiptoe to the ground, arms outstretched and swinging up and down, and their bodies squatting up and down with their arms.
MacArthur dared to be angry and could only bear the insults and oppression in silence, until one day, when he was doing this action, he fainted on the ground due to lack of physical strength.
When he woke up, he found that his legs were spasming, and sometimes he couldn't even control his legs, which lasted for a long time.
MacArthur was afraid of the old man's ridicule and retaliation, no one dared to tell, he could only break his teeth and swallow into his stomach, silently bearing all this, but this training was still a year away.
Summoned for trial
If only things were as MacArthur thought, he would have suffered everything in silence, and then in a year he could escape the beast camp, but everything changed after the death of a classmate.
Toward the end of training, a freshman like him died shortly after dropping out of school, and although doctors diagnosed the cause of death as tuberculosis, his family was adamant that he had died of abuse at West Point.
It turned out that Buzi had withdrawn from the tournament because he had lost the boxing match and refused to fight again, he was regarded as a coward by the cadets and was asked to take off his military uniform, and he openly chose to refuse, but the result of the refusal was that he was more seriously abused, he was asked to drink a lot of soy sauce before and after meals, a total of about 3785 ml of soy sauce before and after, and an ordinary family cooking, not using so much soy sauce a year.
In this way, the otherwise humiliated Buzi's grades declined badly, and finally had to choose to withdraw from school, and died of illness shortly after dropping out of school, and Buzi's family also sued West Point, and MacArthur, as a new student at West Point, was also summoned to the court for interrogation.
MacArthur, who came to court, did not talk and laugh as he did later, and because of his first appearance in the courtroom, he was frightened into two battles, sweating profusely, and almost wanted to go first. When asked to tell the judge who the suspect was, he stammered and didn't know what to say.
He did not dare to tell the court who the perpetrator was, and if he did, he would be ridiculed by his classmates and the school, but if he did not tell, he would also be ordered to withdraw from school, at which point he could only turn his eyes to his mother for help.
MacArthur opened the note and looked at it, and he gave only the names known to the judges and the names of the students who had left the school.
Under the judge's continuous questioning, in order to terminate the questioning, he had to move out of his father. "Now, my father is fighting on the front line thousands of miles away... He fought alongside you in the Civil War and the War against the Indians." This remark left the judges dumbfounded, and no one ever thought that the student on trial was the son of General Arthur.
MacArthur hit the iron while it was hot and begged the judge to express his willingness to accept any punishment but not to take off his uniform, and the court, forced by General Arthur's prestige, could only declare an adjournment, intending to take the perpetrators out of the rest of the population.
In a state of uneasiness, MacArthur was notified of any punishment, and the judge obtained a list of perpetrators from the mouths of others, and he escaped the disaster.
Tried again
The death of a cadet revealed the identity of The Son of General MacArthur, so the court turned its attention to him again, and under the media's revelations, it was dug out that MacArthur had also been abused in the Beast Training Camp, and in order to repay him justice, the court once summoned him.
This time in the courtroom, in the face of the judge's questions, MacArthur has been familiar with the road, he said that he has not been subjected to any abuse, the judge asked him about leg cramps, he said that he just did not warm up before training, so the leg cramps are more severe, he did not receive more serious treatment than other students, asked about the physical scars, he also just said that there will always be some friction scars in training, which is a symbol of honor.
In this way, under the judge's repeated questioning, he still did not say anything about any of the old students who had abused him, and the judge saw that MacArthur was tight-lipped, unwilling to say anything, and had to terminate the summons.
And it was these two subpoenas that completely changed MacArthur. In his later years, MacArthur recalled, "From then on, whenever I thought it was right, I would do it without thinking." And while waiting for the verdict of fate, you will no longer be frightened and your legs will go weak."
brief summary:
Those who face evil silence are accomplices of the evildoers. In the case of the judge asking who was the perpetrator, in order to ensure that he was not expelled, MacArthur remained silent, always insisting that there was no abuse in the school, so that Buzi suffered from injustice and hated Jiuquan. And the perpetrator sees that the abused and the bystander do not say a word, will not be merciful, but will only become more serious.
Moreover, the shielding of the abuser is originally an act of violating the law, and the law exists to bind man's actions to the minimum moral range, and if he commits illegal acts for the benefit of the individual, then his interests will also be unclean interests.
I think MacArthur recalls that the refusal to propose the list of perpetrators in the courtroom would be a stain on his life that he could not erase.