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Name that General

1. He is one of the two U.S. Generals currently on paper currency, and less than two decades before being granted the highest military title, he was a soldier in the MexicanAmerican War.

2. He made it through the invasion of North Africa, the invasion of Sicily, the Battle of the Bulge, and the surrender of Nazi Germany only to be killed in a car accident just months later.

3. This Vietnam veteran’s famously stormy temper served him well as he led the U.S. to an easy, even if incomplete, victory in the Persian Gulf.

4. He was a U.S. General under President Bush, and then Secretary of State under President Bush.

5. This Rhodes Scholar was a U.S. General during the Kosovo War, was a candidate for the 2004 Democratic Party nomination, but barring victory eventually endorsed John Kerry.

6.Heisoneofthetwo U.S. Generals currently on paper currency, and in 1976 became the only man ever posthumously named General of the Armies, which is unofficially known as a six-star ranking.

7. His generalship is connected to his success in WWII’s Pacific Theater, his post-war leadership of Japan in shambles, and a disco song made famous by Donna Summers.

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