And Pershing was General of the Armies before Washington was.
I don’t care for honors after death. I don’t care for the idea of promoting Lieutenant General Leslie McNair to 4 star general after his death in Normandy (from a US bomb).
Sure McNair went forward from his safe position in the US in an attempt to better understand the war, and he died as a result of doing that, which he perceived as his duty.
I don’t think that it should be the business of the US government to create legal lies by act of congress. Such an act I think is degrading the congress, and they don’t have credibility points to give away.
You’ll never stop the dream-weavers from passing feel-good legislation. It’s what they do.
Pershing was promoted to assuage national pride, not because of a change in the TO&E.