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To: LindyBill who wrote (365572)	5/22/2010 12:18:37 PM
From: ManyMoose	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) of 793911

I would abolish the Service Academies. Really? What makes you say that? I do not have a point of view myself. Just surprised to hear yours. My brother in law came out of Air Force ROTC and had a good career that peaked out at Lt. Col. I guess that's where you find out you're not going to make General. I'm reading Terry C. Johnston's "Long Winter Gone" which is part of a trilogy concerning George Armstrong Custer, who was a West Point graduate. He was a boy wonder. His men ride up to him and address him as 'General', his Civil War brevet rank, and then have to apologize because he's with Sheridan who is actually a General. Custer, of course, talks a good line that makes people follow him. Reading this novel, I get the impression that Custer was a lot like Obama. The first battle where he attacks and destroys Black Kettle's camp results in a massacre of troops who had the misfortune to encounter hostiles in other camps that went undiscovered because Custer would not listen to his scouts. Black Kettle was actually trying to coexist, and his camp was filled with women and children, not warriors.

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