facts about General Douglas MacArthur

Douglas, who had always been an unremarkable student, first started to reveal his own intellectual gifts while attending the West Texas Military Academy He thrived in an atmosphere which combined academics, religion, military discipline and Victorian social graces. Douglas received an appointment to the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1898. Over the next four years, he would achieve one of the finest records in Academy history.
He spent his early years in remote sections of New Mexico, where his father, Arthur MacArthur Jr., commanded an infantry company. It was here that he learned to ride and shoot even before he could read or write.