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vincent
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lonewolf
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 Posted - October 31 2004 : 10:14:44 PM
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| I shed no tears for Custer. Only the soldiers who were killed follwing this fool. Sitting Bull honored the brave white soldiers who fought there. I don't think he included Custer in his admiration. |
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lonewolf
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Posted - October 31 2004 : 10:22:46 PM
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| I stood on this ground in July of this summer. There is nothing for miles in all directions. They have finally honored the Native warriors who were attacked by the U.S. Cavalry at this place. It is a windy place, as if the wind is trying to blow away the stupidity of Custer. There was no brave "Last Stand Hill", but there was a ravine that the soldiers ran down in their fright. Most threw down their arms and were simply looking to get away from the carnage. The last of them were killed running away down the ravine. A sad place to view. |
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42ndNCO
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Posted - November 10 2004 : 12:26:18 PM
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There was a good presentation by the History CHannel a couple months back re: the 'choreography', if you will, of the battle. It was treated as a 'crime scene' might be today, with computer modeling and the whole bit. It was far more scattered than we're taught in school, with many of the 7th Cav. running down the hill towards the ravine as the Soux/Cheyenne picked them off.
Custer broke one of the cardinal rules of an officer-- take care of your men(though I'm not sure how religiously this would have been followed in a 19th century military environment). Had he only taken Benteen up on his offer of the Gatlings, Little Bighorn may have turned out more like Sand Creek or Wounded Knee.
Frederick Benteen ~~ "I offered Custer the battery of Gatling guns but he declined it saying that it might embarrass him: that he was strong enough without it."
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Rickie
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Posted - November 27 2004 : 8:21:32 PM
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| GAC got what he deserved. I only wish he could have suffered for many hours - many. many hours!! |
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joseph wiggs
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Posted - January 07 2007 : 12:00:12 AM
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Originally posted by Rickie
GAC got what he deserved. I only wish he could have suffered for many hours - many. many hours!!
No single entity is responsible for this despicable event in history. Governmental Indian policy, Manifest Destiny, and
man's Inhumanity to Man is to blame. Custer and his ilk were pawns in the political and grieviously greed of the U.S. Government. |
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