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Alexander Archer Vandegrift foi um general do Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais dos Estados Unidos, comandante das tropas norte-americanas na Batalha de Guadalcanal durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, condecorado com a Medalha de Honra, a mais alta comenda das Forças Armadas dos Estados Unidos e primeiro oficial do Corpo de Fuzileiros Navais a receber as quatro estrelas de general em serviço ativo. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Março 1887 – 8. Maio 1973
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“The Marine Corps, then, believes that it has earned this right—to have its future decided by the legislative body which created it—nothing more. Sentiment is not a valid consideration in determining questions of national security. We have pride in ourselves and in our past, but we do not rest our case on any presumed ground of gratitude owing us from the Nation. The bended knee is not a tradition of our Corps. If the Marine as a fighting man has not made a case for himself after 170 years of service, he must go. But I think you will agree with me that he has earned the right to depart with dignity and honor, not by subjugation to the status of uselessness and servility planned for him by the War Department.”

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Alexander Vandegrift

Conclusion of Vandegrift's "Bended Knee Speech" to the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs, delivered on May 6, 1946.