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