General MacArthur - Address at Soldier Field

Returning to the States, for the first time in 14 years, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur addressed a huge crowd at Chicago's Soldier Field.  Soon thereafter, he gave his farewell address to Congress (on the 19th of April, 1951).  He ended his speech with these now-famous words:

'Old soldiers never die--they just fade away.' And like the old soldier of that ballad, I now close my military career and just fade away--an old soldier who tried to do his duty as God gave him the light to see that duty. Good-bye.