[Homer_J_Simpson]

Continued from September 18 (reply #7) .

Home Letters of General Sherman, edited by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1909

[Tax-chick]

Poor Mr. Sherman. He seems to have been in the right place at the wrong time so often: California when the boom went bust, and so on.

“It makes me regret my being out of service thus to meet my old comrades, in the open field, just where I most like to be.”

This reminds me of my father, who would have stayed in the Navy another 20 years (after the first 30) if they had let him. However, Dad could not have equaled the lovely composition of Sherman’s sentence. He could write either basic noun-verb-object compositions or highly-garbled militarese jargon.

[M Kehoe]

I spent 18 months at the Big Red One, with frequent trips to Leavenworth.

The history of both are very interesting (The Indian “problem.”)

5.56mm

[colorado tanker]

Ft. Riley is in the Flint Hills, rolling hills from west of Topeka to a little west of Junction City (KS). They are really beautiful and at one time were covered in tallgrass prairie. Some of it is preserved in the National Park Service Preserve.