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Omar Bradley (1893–1981) was a military figure whose career spanned from 1915 to 1953. He is identified as General Omar N. Bradley and authored the work *A Soldier's Story*. His writings include the statements, "It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship," and "We are dealing with [veterans], not procedures; with their problems, not ours."
Bradley was recognized in the Legion Of Merit collection. He is referenced by 790 other encyclopedia articles. MusicBrainz lists him as a person from GB, while Open Library records one work under his name.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- A Soldier's Story. By General Omar N. Bradley
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 20
- Total plays
- 68
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Model-based Analysis of ChIP-Seq (MACS)
· 2008 · cited 17,858x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,770x
- An Introduction to the Bootstrap
· 1993 · cited 16,616x
- The Chemistry and Applications of Metal-Organic Frameworks
· 2013 · cited 16,031x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,951x
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Quotes
- “It is time that we steered by the stars, not by the lights of each passing ship.”
- “We have men of science; too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount. Man is stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness while toying with the precarious secrets of life and death. The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living.”
- “We are dealing with [veterans], not procedures; with their problems, not ours.”
- “Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share the guilt for the dead.”
- “Dependability, integrity, the characteristic of never knowingly doing anything wrong, that you would never cheat anyone, that you would give everybody a fair deal. Character is a sort of an all-inclusive thing. If a man has character, everyone has confidence in him. Soldiers must have confidence in their leader.”
- “To those soldiers who must often have wondered WHY they were going where they did. Perhaps this will help answer their questions.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Omar Nelson Bradley (12 February 1893 – 8 April 1981) was a senior officer of the United States Army during and after World War II, rising to the rank of General of the Army. He was the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and oversaw the U.S. military's policy-making in the Korean War.
Born in Randolph County, Missouri, he worked as a boilermaker before entering the United States Military Academy at West Point. He graduated from the academy in 1915 alongside Dwight D. Eisenhower as part of "the class the stars fell on." During World War I, he guarded copper mines in Montana. After the war, he taught at West Point and served in other roles before taking a position at the War Department under General George Marshall. In 1941, he became commander of the United States Army Infantry School.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Omar Bradley” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.