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  Shinseki retires with parting shot at Rumsfeld
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News DateThursday, June 12, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0
Description''And so I say one last time, my name is Shinseki and I am a soldier--proud of it.''

With that trademark expression from an Army chief of staff who defined himself as a simple soldier, Gen. Eric K. Shinseki on Wednesday bade farewell to a career that spanned five decades, from the jungles of Vietnam, where combat cost him part of a foot, to the halls of the Pentagon, where he fought bureaucratic wars until his final hours as chief of staff.

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