How things have changed. Not-too-fanciful news Item ( I wish)
Place: A mosque outside of Oran, N. Africa. Time: 12/19/1942
Soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division, chasing Islamic bandits, were fired on from a mosque today.
DivCG Terry Allen ordered Div XO, General Theodore Roosevelt,Jr, to level the mosque. DivArty happily did a 30 minute TOT. Problem solved.
God Bless the Big Red One then, now, and always.
One of the true heros of World War II. He may have single-handedly saved the American landing at Utah Beach on D-Day. Patton called him "the bravest soldier I ever knew".