Puller, Lewis B. Jr. (1991). Two holes later, fired up, he changed it to a "colossal collapse." (fade to roar). Facebook gives people the. He waited until the sixth hole of the final round to declare that Retief Goosen was in the midst of "a historic collapse." To the end, Fuller was the good soldier, always did his duty. Gore went to local qualifying, then to sectional qualifying and earned his way to the national Open. He probably wouldn't have lived without her. He was not sponsored by PBR. After a port visit to Victoria, B.C., (24 December), the guided missile cruiser conducted a successful torpedo exercise (58 December) off Nanoose Bay before steaming back to Long Beach for the holiday season. Lewis B. Puller carried out counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean while attached to Joint Task Force Four (1 September10 December). He was 48. As weeks passed and he lay immobile and bandaged like a mummy, Lewis Puller rehearsed over and over in his mind what to tell his young wife. L. Douglas Wilder and is running for delegate again. About a week after that fleeting conversation about divorce, Toddy says, her husband asked her to bring contraception when she next visited. 'Chesty' Puller, an outspoken, profane leader revered in the corps, died in 1971. She could have walked away from him when he got wounded," says Paul S. Koffsky, who has worked alongside Puller in the Office of the General Counsel at the Pentagon for 10 years. Me? After the completion of Team Spirit 84, she made way for Subic Bay, Philippines, for eight days of liberty and upkeep (31 March8 April). He said Puller required hospitalization. ), who recuperated from Vietnam injuries alongside Puller later at the Philadelphia Naval Hospital. His marriage was ending, Scruggs said. (FFG-23; displacement 3,627 tons; length 445'; beam 45' 4"; draft 24' 6"; speed 28+ knots; complement 184; armament 1 Oto Melara Mk 75 76-millimeter, 1 Mk 13 Guided Missile Launcher for RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missiles and SM-1MR Standard anti-ship/surface-to-air missiles, 6 Mk 32 Torpedo Tubes, 2 Kaman SH-2F Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System Seasprites; class Oliver Hazard Perry). Puller, who died in 1971 at age 73, is one of the most decorated Marines of all time, earning five Navy Crosses over the course of his 37-year career. Puller earned the Silver Star, two Purple Hearts, the Navy Commendation Medal and the Vietnam Cross of Gallantry. Toddy kept busy with the PTA, the Girl Scouts, volunteer work. "My mom was running around crying and telling us to go back to sleep. Returning to Subic Bay, she later stood out via Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (1023 July), en route to San Diego (1 August). Let us know if you have suggestions to improve this article (requires login). ", On another occasion, when Puller was particularly angry and bitter, Kerrey says, he heard Toddy say, "Lewis, I'm going to bury you in a suitcase if you don't stop.". By the time help arrived, both of the Marine's legs, much of his hands and massive chunks of his buttocks had vaporized in a pink mist. "She was brutally direct with him," recalls Kerrey, who spent nine months in the hospital ward with Puller. Her father had put an iron poker through the television set, enraged at a documentary on Vietnam veterans. A veterans' advocate and Pulitzer Prize winner whose hands were disfigured and whose legs were torn from his body by a booby trap in Vietnam, he had finally surrendered in his 26-year battle. "Chesty" Puller, a general of mythic proportions, the most highly decorated officer in Marine Corps history, whose own grandfather had been killed at Kelly's Ford, another Civil War battlefield on the Rappahannock. Harsh criticism, much of it unjust or misplaced, would dog his reputation thereafter. Given the choice between democracy and elitism, sign me up with the grassroots movement any day. He entered a 28-day detox program in 1981 and has not taken another drink since. Why the U.S. Open rules over The Masters: There would be no Jason Gore at The Masters. After completing the exercise, the group visited Sasebo, Japan (1013 April). After accomplishing a holiday upkeep period in Long Beach, Lewis B. Puller began preparing for refresher training (1317 January 1987). For years after he returned to a reasonably sound physical condition, he remained emotionally shaken, though he earned a law degree, had two children with the woman he had married before going to Vietnam, and raised a family. The book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992. The account ended with Puller triumphing over his physical disabilities and becoming emotionally at peace with himself. But the drinking continued. "Never," the doctor wrote, "had I seen more severe traumatic injuries in a patient who had lived, and I wondered at the time if I was doing the right thing by allowing you to live. Already experiencing high blood pressure and heart problems, after a long inspection of an infantry battalion on a hot day he suffered a stroke that put him in the hospital. Tiger, for one day, at least, is just living in it. I'm certainly more moderate than he was. The world that the so-called Vietnam generation inherited was not supposed to work the way it did. He may not live," the Marine Corps officer said. He was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1974 and began working as a lawyer for the Veteran's Administration and on President Gerald Ford's clemency board. Campbell recoiled in horror and used the opportunity to team up with fellow Kiwi Greg Turner to voice dismay. The United States had just entered World War I when he finished high school, but he chose to attend Virginia Military Institute. "I've come to see," Puller says, "that I represent an awful lot of people who have had adversity. [10], On Veterans Day 2010, the Lewis B. Puller Jr. Veterans Benefits Clinic at The College of William & Mary Law School was named in honor of Puller. Fast-forward two years to the 2002 New Zealand Open. Lewis B. Puller spent the first week of September tasked as the Southern California ready duty counter-narcotics vessel, however, she did not deploy due to lack of suspect traffic (110 September). After participating in the annual Seattle Seafair activities in Seattle, Wash., (29 July1 August), Lewis B. Puller returned to Long Beach (11 August). "The lieutenant was conscious the whole time and talking but he didn't know that his legs were gone," Navy medic George "Ivan" Ellis wrote in his diary Oct. 11, 1968, describing how soldiers tried to keep Puller from bleeding to death by cupping their hands under his stumps. National Archives Identifier: 6526424. The ones who survived were heroes; the more heroic, the greater the wounds. How can we explain that some of us, like Lew Puller, volunteered bravely to serve, while others, like myself, served reluctantly and luckily (I was shipped to Europe, not Vietnam) or, like the man who as president must symbolize the country's past and future, didn't serve at all? He was promoted to captain in February 1936 and returned to the United States later that year to begin a teaching assignment at The Basic School, the training course for newly commissioned or appointed Marine officers. Finally his watch was confiscated so he wouldn't know when it was time for a new dose. Now, Campbell was either grandstanding out of jealousy or standing tall for the little man or some combination of both, but the point was clear: Campbell wasn't on Tiger's Christmas card list. If it felt really odd to see Tiger contend, and then fall just short, that's because it was odd. Lewis says he's heard about a proposal for a 12-part TV miniseries. For eight months he could not find a job. Campbell and Turner threatened to boycott the tourney. Twenty movie offers. Puller died from a self-inflicted gunshot on May 11, 1994. But if it didn't, as Southerners learned the lesson of their Lost Cause, the defeat was honorable. On 26 May, the ship conducted a boarding of the fishing vessel Marabella II, and discovered 4,000 pounds of marijuana. New glass doors lead out to a new sun deck. Coast-to-coast TV and radio interviews. It's easy, and probably not wrong, to say that Lew Puller died from the unhealed wounds he suffered in Vietnam. But we the parents still don't have our stories straight. But about our own war in our own time, what would we tell our children? Through it all, Toddy allowed him no self-pity. Tiger, with his second-place mark, now has 15. A misfire on board Lewis B. Puller the next day caused a good deal of excitement amongst the crew, and Cmdr. He saw combat on the Matanikau River and at Pelelieu in World War II and at Inchon and the Chosin Reservoir in Korea. National Archives Identifier: 6491772. Puller was born in West Point, Virginia, some 35 miles (56 km) east of Richmond, and he grew up on the tales of aging Confederate veterans and the heroic historical novels of G.A. Or purchase a subscription for unlimited access to real news you can count on. THE HOT, humid, muggy and buggy summers along Virginia's Rappahannock River, where Stonewall Jackson died and where Lewis B. Puller Jr. grew up, make some of us think of Vietnam. 'I think the Puller family has made enough of a commitment and that we can skip a generation.'. I remember when he won the RBC Canadian Open this year and his wife and child came on the green to celebrate with him. At first we touched each other tentatively, but when she sensed that I was not as fragile as I seemed and I realized that I could still perform, we forsook caution and made love with the eagerness of young lovers who had been apart for half a year. Discuss. Chester Nimitz and led the famed Horse Marines in Beijing. 2 and see a sweet story of Michael Campbell's grace under pressure, of triumph over Tiger and tears of joy. Puller spent his first 18 months as a frustrated staff officer, but eventually he made his initial mark commanding the only unit of the Marine-led Guardia Nacional not tethered to defending a town. "She once tipped him over in his wheelchair. The first U.S. Navy ship named Lewis B. Puller conducted her shakedown training the last two weeks of May 1982, before gun firing tests (24 June). Total Rating 100%. President Bill Clinton clasps hands with Lewis Puller Jr. , son of U.S. Marine Corps legend Lewis "Chesty" Puller, before delivering his 31 May 1993. The explosion tore away his legs and parts of both hands. He followed in his father's footsteps and became a Marine officer. 'My father was very conservative. Corrections? Pullers next assignment took him to China (193336), where he was in charge of the Marine detachment on the USS Augusta under Capt. A state legislator, she was attending a special session of the General Assembly. "[8], Terry Anderson, a former Associated Press journalist, who was held hostage in Lebanon, recalled the same hope he had had for his friend, Puller. Those who knew him say that it was primarily because of his iron will and his stubborn refusal to die that he survived. On December 26, 1932, just five days before the end of the U.S. intervention, Puller led a Guardia unit in one of the biggest victories of the conflict at El Sauce. The guided missile frigate got underway for Esquimalt, British Columbia (1114 June), before conducting acoustic trials at Carr Inlet in Puget Sound (1516 June). Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet. Over the following year, he watched as German armies consolidated their hold on western Europe and invaded the Soviet Union. It's Philadelphia tomorrow, isn't it? Smith knew Chestys limitations and usually kept control of the divisions reserve unit, knowing that Puller had a penchant for getting his entire outfit into the fight early in a battle. Puller was the son of the most highly decorated Marine in U.S. history, Gen. Lewis Chesty Puller. At least Campbell didn't dress like Tiger on Sunday. DANFS - Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Permitting Policy and Resource Management, The 9/11 Terrorist Attacks: 20 Years Later, "Ex Scientia Tridens": The U.S. Long after his death, Puller remained a conspicuous presence within the Marine Corps. After the phone call I had one more drink, went out to my car, and tightly closed the garage and kitchen doors. Like most Virginia boys, Lewis Puller learned early and by heart Jackson's last, deathbed words after the Battle of Chancellorsville. The following year he won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Ralph K. Martin in command. Lewis Puller Jr., son of "Chesty" Puller -- the most decorated Marine in history, a man who had covered himself with glory from Guadalcanal to Inchon -- had been married five months when an. For his father, Lewis Burwell Puller (18981971), a United States Marine Corps lieutenant general, see. Mistaken for the enemy, shot and mortally wounded by his. It was incredible.. "I remember her saying, 'Thank God his mind is okay,' " says Barnett. Toddy rushed him to nearby Mount Vernon Hospital, and the next day he was transferred to the psychiatric unit at Bethesda Naval Hospital. On November 8 Puller was wounded in a Japanese machine gun and artillery attack on his command post. He was not sponsored by PBR. In the 1980s she turned to politics, starting as a precinct organizer and making her name as a political consultant when she masterminded Audrey Moore's successful 1987 campaign for Fairfax County board chairman. Transferred to the Egyptian Navy, she was renamed Toushka (F.906) the same day. Laura Massie, a spokeswoman for George Mason University, where Puller was in his second year as a writer-in-residence, confirmed that Puller killed himself. She also participated in torpedo exercises on the Nanoose Torpedo Range (1316 August), before returning to Long Beach on the 21st. They say wars are never over. "He's been wounded. Omissions? Cause of death: suicide (by gunshot). It is clear that Lewis affected the lives of people in ways that we never knew." He lived a quiet retirement in Saluda, Virginia, marked only by his testimony in favour of tough training at the sensational McKeon trial at Parris Island in 1956. His hands are jammed into the pockets of his brown suit and he's holding a tobacco pipe in his teeth. Like Lee, Jackson and his father "Chesty," the name of Lewis B. Puller Jr., is hallowed now -- his story true. What I do know is this: The Haka dance, performed by Maori tribes and by the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team, is one of the coolest things in sports. His book, Fortunate Son: The Healing of a Vietnam Vet, was about his life as his fathers son, his Vietnam experiences and his struggle with depression and alcoholism after the war. Chesty Puller, USMC, during the Korean War,1 September 1950. Campbell and Turner agreed to play the tournament when organizers relented and said they'd let youths under 16 in for free. Rhetorical query: Did Campbell borrow those pin-striped pants from Cincinnati basketball coach and Al Capone-styled fashionista Bob Huggins? A photo unearthed from the Marine Corps Archives and posted to the Archives Flickr and Facebook accounts shows Lt. Gen. Lewis Burwell "Chesty" Puller out of uniform and apparently in retirement. So I say to you, philosophically minded reader: Jack had 19 runner-up finishes; Tiger has worked his way to a deuce, and counting. In a 1992 graduation speech at Christchurch School, Puller told the students he was proof that life offered second, third and even fourth chances. Toddy had moved to Philly too, sleeping for a time in a nearby attic apartment, eating off a hot plate, nursing their newborn, Lewis Puller III. Relegated to the reserves, he resigned and re-enlisted for active duty as a private for the chance to serve as a lieutenant in the Marine-led gendarmerie during the U.S. occupation of Haiti. "But I couldn't do it," he says. Following a series of further qualification tests, she conducted a missile firing exercise with Mahlon S. Tisdale (FFG-27) against supersonic drone targets (2324 April). Just a little story to brighten up your day. After Vietnam, he attended law school at the College of William and Mary, and worked as a Defense Department lawyer before taking a leave of absence to teach. Gore's caddie, Lewis Puller III, wore a trucker-styled Pabst Blue Ribbon cap throughout the U.S. Open. Puller had grown up in Saluda, Va., and knew the strongly pro-military district well, and he despised Trible, who later became a U.S. senator. Only at the 2002 PGA Championship, when Rich Beem held off a late Tiger charge, has it happened before. For what seemed like an eternity I sat behind the wheel with my hand on the ignition key and tears streaming down my face and thought about never seeing my family again. Puller was given command of the 1st Battalion, 7th Marines (1/7), as the United States prepared for a conflict with Japan that seemed inevitable. Highlights of the exercise included Lewis B. Puller entering the Bering Sea for her first time (26 September). Lewis B. Puller received the Joint Meritorious Unit Award for performance during the 19971998 counter-narcotics deployment. The firing squad honed to perfection and acting as one Marine. Puller's hair is graying in the photo. I then drank another half dozen shots and called a prominent Vietnam veteran in New York whom I barely knew to tell him what a rotten deal we veterans had gotten from our country. What's harder to argue -- but I will -- is that he also died from the stories we tell ourselves, the myths necessary to nation-building, and a present so awful that the past seems a lie. 'I'm still trying to come to grips with my Vietnam experience,' he added. I put the key in the ignition. The many acts of kindness from our friends across the country have helped us in this very difficult time. If Ladbroke's had offered 1,000-to-1 odds Saturday night that Retief Goosen would shoot 81 in his final round, I'm not even sure I'd have wasted a fiver on it. Tiger didn't hand it too Campbell this time around, not with his struggles with the putter. 'It gave me a much greater understanding of the working man,' he said. At his elbow is his wife, Virginia. You have to credit Johnny Miller with a tremendous sense of restraint. After five years of writing, scribbling his memories one page at a time with what is left of his right hand, his autobiography, "Fortunate Son," has become one of the hottest new books in the country. I've never been to New Zealand. Reporters, in turn, had noted that it was odd that Campbell was apparently dressing to look like Tiger in a sort of weird, PGA Tour version of "Single White Female. It was a miracle.". In just over eight weeks on Guadalcanal, the officers of the 1st Battalion had suffered a casualty rate of 50 percent; casualties among enlisted men approached 30 percent. [5] [7] Puller's survivors included their two children, Lewis III and Maggie, his twin sister, Martha Downs, and sister, Virginia Dabney. This appeals to me, hugely. We were 23 years old and I had to be like this for the rest of my life, but she didn't have to stick it out," says Puller, now asking his wife if she remembers that day. As a solid for his New Zealander caddie, Steve Williams, Tiger agreed to play the low-profile New Zealand Open. He won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography for his autobiography Fortunate Son. But when the world doesn't change, alcohol lubricates the painful friction, the constant grinding, as powerful as that of the earth's tectonic plates, between what was and what is, what might have been and what really wasn't. Chesty Puller, in full Lewis Burwell Puller, (born June 26, 1898, West Point, Virginia, U.S.died October 11, 1971, Hampton, Virginia), United States Marine Corps officer who was the most decorated and venerated Marine in the history of the Corps. The Masters is invite-only, and you can check your Pabst Blue Ribbon trucker-styled cap at the door. Yet years later, in an inspired gesture to heal the nation's wounds, if not his own, Puller stood with Bill Clinton before the Vietnam Memorial to face down fellow veterans' presidential boos. In retrospect, he was wrapping things up. View the profiles of people named Lewis Puller III. His military career began inauspiciously. Without further incident, the seasoned vessel returned to Long Beach (20 April). "This is a man who had so many burdens, so many things to bear. The couple appears to be on the porch of their home. Chesty Puller's early life and entry into the US Marine Corps. 'When I needed this kind of support, it wasn't there,' Puller said in an interview outside the arena. But no one, not even Toddy, knew how much he was drinking. Perspiring from fright after his rifle jammed under enemy fire, the 23-year-old lieutenant had almost reached safety when he tripped a howitzer round that blew half his body away. Given the toughest assignmentto seize the Umurbrogol Ridge, the heart of the enemys heavily fortified positionhe lost more than half his men. He has the logo on his golf bag and has a special connection with his caddie Lewis Puller. "I had to learn how to stop being fixated on the past, to live in the future," says Puller, a Pentagon attorney turned acclaimed author. "I had a wife and two children. Updates? Lewis Burwell Puller Jr. was the son of Lt. General Lewis "Chesty" Puller, the most decorated Marine in the history of the U.S. Marine Corps. Over the following years, his aggressive pursuit of Csar Augusto Sandinos rebels led to numerous battles, two Navy Crosses, and a reputation for fearlessness, as well as the nickname Chesty. After spending 10 months undergoing advanced training at U.S. Army Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia, Puller began a second tour of duty in Nicaragua in July 1932. He obviously put a lot into it., Puller returned to Vietnam last August for the first time since the war, and said he was overwhelmed when he met disabled Vietnamese veterans, Here I am, sitting on an NVA (North Vietnam Army) soldiers bed with him, he said You know, our stumps are all tangled up. William H. Smith ordered the gunnery exercise rapidly cut short and the round disposed of. He was survived by his wife, Linda T. "Toddy" Puller, from whom he had separated in 1991. One night Maggie, then about 5, awoke to a smashing noise downstairs. A congressional book party. Tiger, being a capitalist and all, secured himself a $2 million appearance fee. That's the question all baby boomers asked of the generation that had born them. And he bore them well for 25 years," he said. That's the kind of storytelling that leads to nation-building, for future generations to remember. E-mail Brian Murphy at page2murphy@yahoo.com. The frigate spent the rest of the year conducting underway training periods off San Pedro. When I came to several hours later, Toddy was standing over me, screaming and slapping my face, and all I could think was that my suicide gesture, like my life, had been a failure. Disenchanted by the conduct of the war in Korea and dismayed at the poor preparation for combat of some Army units, Puller spoke his mind to reporters when he returned to the States, briefly creating controversial headlines. 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The younger Puller would go on to write a Pulitzer Prize-winning autobiography, Fortunate Son (1991), as a tribute to his father, and die by his own hand in 1994. Once there, he leaned on a caddie wearing a Pabst Blue Ribbon trucker-styled cap. Our editors will review what youve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. After the attack on Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941), the U.S. was at last drawn into World War II and Puller would gain his first experience leading American troops in the field. As tensions increased in the Pacific, the American military presence in China was drawn down, and in August 1941 Puller returned to the United States and an assignment with the newly established 1st Marine Division. Then the President's Own Marine Corps Band plays slowly a few haunting bars of The Marine Hymn letting it fade on the wind in the trees. Lewis Burwell Chesty Puller was born on 26 June 1898, in West Point, Va. After entering the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va., in 1917, Puller dropped out in August 1918 to join the U.S. Marine Corps and fight in Europe. Why Jason Gore Ruled, Part Deux: On the 16th tee, en route to an 84, and with the other man in his group en route to an 81, Gore turned to Goosen and said: "Why don't we play the last three holes for five bucks, just to make it interesting?". He suffered terrible wounds that never really healed.. During her underway period, she made port visits to Curacao, Netherland Antilles (30 May2 June); Guantnamo Bay (20 June); NS Rodman, Panama (11 July); and Mazatln, Mexico (1417 August). At the World Match Play event that year, Campbell was slated to face Tiger, and it was an anticipated match in golf circles. I'm just here to report that his hairstyle part 'fro, part bouffant was last seen on Percy Sledge, circa 1964. Everything is looking brighter. That's the number of Tiger's runner-up finishes at majors, after his Miss Congeniality finish at Pinehurst. "They are devoted to each other. Linda Ford "Toddy" Todd, an art history major at Mary Washington College, sister school to the then all-male University of Virginia, and Lewis Burwell Puller Jr., a graduate of William and Mary College and a Marine officer, had married hurriedly in a chapel at Quantico two months before he left for war. Lewis B. Puller remained busy into New Year 1997, shifting her homeport to Naval Air Station (NAS) North Island, San Diego, in preparation for the Chinese Navys first port visit to the continental U.S. (2025 March 1997). [4] Throughout the years, he battled periods of despondency and drank heavily until 1981, when he underwent treatment for alcoholism. "It's a miracle to me," says Sen. Bob Kerrey (D-Neb. During an underway period to Hawaii, the ship conducted countless drills for refresher training (814 May). "Toddy is a real hero," says Kerrey, who remains friends with the couple. In 1989 she lost her first attempt at elected office in a close race against state Del. ", There are bigger concerns to think about. Jon Hoffman retired as a colonel from the Marine Corps Reserve in 2008 after thirty years as an infantry officer and field historian, including seventeen years of active duty. Now fast-forward to Sunday at Pinehurst. He retired as a lieutenant general in 1955. Im not proud of any of this, and I readily acknowledge that most of my problems, most of my misfortunes, were of my own making.. Lewis B. Puller made way for Australia, crossing the equator and entering the realm of King Neptunes Court (15 June). (Point of fairness: at age 29, through the 1969 U.S. Open, Jack had seven runner-ups. "Otherwise you become engulfed in bitterness.". Following a port visit to Anchorage (1316 October), the warship returned to Long Beach for fuel and provisions on the 22nd before steaming for exercise Kernal Usher 89-1 the next day. He saw him as a "chicken hawk," a politician who proclaimed at the shipyards of Newport News that he was tough on defense, while he had gotten what Puller believed to be a questionable medical deferment that kept him out of Vietnam. "I think you don't know what kind of strength you have until you're taxed," says Toddy as she moves around the room, stopping to squeeze in next to her husband in his wheelchair. The young Marines before us at attention and unmoving. To the list of names of victims of the Vietnam War, add the name of Lewis Puller, she said in a statement Wednesday night. It occurred at 3 p.m. on May 10, 1863. "If she thought, 'This is horrible -- he is in a wheelchair forever,' then life would have been over.". The most decorated Marine in U.S. history, Puller earned five Navy Cross awards (the most by a Marine) and one U.S. Army Distinguished Service Cross. It's your world. Let us cross over the river and rest under the shade of the trees. "I'm telling you, I saw the blood oozing out of him. He drank more and more, keeping half-gallon bottles of white wine at home, even bringing fifths of scotch to work. Tiger started birdie-birdie and dusted the Kiwi, 5 and 4. What did you do in the war, Daddy? Lewis B. Puller steamed for Hawaii to participate in the Rim of the Pacific (Rimpac) 88 exercise, and made a port visit to Pearl Harbor (1416 July). January 1993. After half a dozen shots, I wrote Toddy a brief note telling her that I loved her and the children and that what I was about to do was not her fault. Puller later recalled the first time his father saw him in the hospital. Puller would go on to serve for 37 years, including combat commands in both World War II and the Korean War. 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