"I wish I could be there once again in the land of my birth and your distinguished company," 87-year-old Arthur MacArthur IV said in a statement read at a solemn ceremony to mark the 80th ...

they simply fade away,” old soldiers do, in fact, die. MacArthur died of kidney and liver failure in 1964 at age 84. Though his body died, his spirit lived on – and not just in the hearts of ...