On Friday, June 14, 1985, Major General H. Norman
Schwarzkopf stood before the 16,000 troops of the 24th
Infantry Division on the parade ground at Fort Stewart,
Georgia. Very few people outside the Army had heard of
him. But to his soldiers, this burlyand emotional command-
er, whom they called "the Bear," was already well known
for a style of leadership at once more demanding and more
trusting than was customary. The occasion was a change-
of-command ceremony: Schwarzkopf was about to leave
the 24th Division to take up a job as assistant deputy chief
of staff for Operations and Plans at the Pentagon. In his
two years at Fort Stewart, Schwarzkopf had made many
friends, and he did not forget any of them as he spoke
without notes to the assembled crowd of soldiers, their
families, and local dignitaries. His thirty-minute speech
was eloquent. But in the midst of it he abruptly faltered
and had to fight back tears as he declared to his troops,
"I ve loved you as only a soldier can love a soldier."
On the parade ground, bathed in sunshine, soldiers
listened in rapt silence. Joe N. Frazar, then a lieutenant
colonel and battalion commander in the 24th, was among
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