Lt. James Monroe, hero of RevWar and 5th POTUS
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Lots of interesting POTUS facts herein...hope you Freepers like this one
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Posted on 02/19/2010 6:58:22 AM PST by Pharmboy
Also, the blurb about the General failed to mention that when congress acted to honor him, they posthumously gave him a sixth star so no one could ever outrank him.
Isn’t Obama’s rank as Messiah higher than a 5 star officer or President?
The RevWar/Colonial History/General Washington ping list...
Lots of interesting POTUS facts herein...hope you Freepers like this one
And thank you, OKers!
Indeed...he transcends the cosmos (although with his poll numbers dropping, maybe it’s just the solar system these days).
In his own little mind it is.
Thanks for the pic. A childhood friend of mine who is retired Navy (after 27 years) sent me an article a few years back that had a recent interview with one of the guys in the pic (I believe those were Army Rangers right before D-Day). It was terrific...Ike was wonderful (even though he graduated dead last in his class at West Point).
Your welcome, Pharmboy - the pic is General Eisenhower addressing members of the 101st Airborne (Screaming Eagles) right before D-Day.
Ah...thanks for the correction. I knew it was a noteworthy group, and the 101st Airborne surely qualifies...
How about Herbert Hoover and the Boxer Rebellion.
Didn’t he help defend Tsentain, even leading Marines around.
I’m not sure of his military status at the time, but his first national attention was reports of how he used bags of rice to build fortifications to keep the Boxers out of the port town. Keeping the port enabled later relief expeditions to have an easy entry into China.
>>Isn’t Obama’s rank as Messiah higher than a 5 star officer or President?<<
He served our country by writing 2 books, neither of which had any content. A “life of service” just ain’t what it used to be...
Thanks for the post, though, after reading his bio, I am impressed.
Although, in fairness, Monroe and Jefferson were colonels of the Virginia Militia - more a social post than anything. It was expected that gentlemen of the time would be officers of the militia.
Thanks for the ping, Pharmboy — this kind of thing always astonishes me. So many of our Presidents were so extraordinary and gave so much of themselves when serving.
Clearly, last year our standards for selecting the POTUS fell to unprecedented lows.
Arthur is a little misleading. He was a quartermaster general and an inspector general of the state of NY and given the rank of Brigadier General. But he was not a military man.
But doesn`t Obummer qualify as an official U.S Govt. Corpse Man?
Interesting article about our US presidents.
BTW - Harry Truman started out as a private in the Missouri National Guard.
As far as TJ, well, he was never much of a soldier, but he sure could write.
For example, when he writes about the four who were cited for valor, he does not mention Washington or Monroe, since there were no citations around during the RevWar. There was no man braver than Washington on the battlefield, from the French and Indian War through the revolution. Just to cite one instance: at Princeton, the militia was falling back, so Washington, atop his white horse, drove them and then led them into the line of Redcoat muskets. As he rode in front of them, Sgt. Fitzgerald of the Continental Army could not bear to look and literally covered his eyes as they leveled their weapons and fired. After the smoke cleared, the general was still atop his horse and the sargeant was overcome with joy.
Not true. He was 61st out of 164 --- http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/dwight_eisenhower.htm
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