"Nothing has touched me more deeply than the act of the National Father's Day committee. By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact. But I am prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build. The father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death, the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle, but in the home."
These are the words of General Douglas MacArthur when he was honored in 1942, for being a good father. He was asked to speak on this occasion and made this statement.
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