Posted on 04/20/2007 8:12:39 AM PDT by drzz
Watch the video.
This is how Americans live, fight and die if they must. This is an American legacy. Americans are not cowards, never were, never will. Think about it, Copperhead Reid. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsMb3U6CfqA
Americans stood at Little Big Horn, like Leonidas in Thermopylae.
And Americans were betrayed at Little Big Horn by Benteen and Reno, just like Leonidas, and like the troops today in Iraq, who are standing and fighting while Democrats are cutting their funds.
Watch this on Custer’s Last Stand:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKeTsG2JpQA
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Unfortunately, Custer will always be remembered for his selfishness and self-centeredness. He was obsessed with his own personal glory and the men of the 7th Cavalry paid for it with their lives.
The WPPA continues to attempt to whitewash the abysmal behavior of one of their own.
Do Hell with Honor, by Larry Sklenar, Oklahoma Press
Lakota Noon, by Gregory Michno, Missoula Press
Surprises guaranteed. Do you think liberals are lying on the present war in Iraq ? Do you think they present an horrible portrayal of America, full of self-hatred and PC ?
Guess what ‘ They did the same with Custer and the battle of the Little Big Horn.
Historian Michno, whose work is a reference about LBH :
“Custer’s moves prove he was a very competent field leader”.
General Nelson Miles, US army commander in 1898 :
“The more I study LBH, the more I have admiration for Custer.”
I advise you to study more LBH, and you may discover that liberals don’t only undermine the present story, but they taught you FALSE history.
Custer is not well-thought of at all in Oklahoma. When the wife and I went to Gettysberg and she saw the Custer Memorial she about went crazy. I had to tell her that in that part of the country people don’t look at Custer the same way we do back home.
This wound up being a good thread about yet another thing “we should never forget”,,,,it’s going into my favorites file for future reference.
Oklahoma has no memory.
People watched “Dr Quinn” or “Into the West” and are certain that Custer attacked poor defenseless Cheyennes in Oklahoma.
Here is a much accurate version of what happened during the Battle of the Washita. Watch it and tell your wife that she sould watch it too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4534E1cCLyQ
thanks for that awesome information: I don’t know why it came as such a suprise to me, since I have read and thought about the Civil War for a long time;mostly from the “South as a Civilization” POV expounded by former Marxist professor Eugene Genovese. I think I have
more than a little hunch as to why standardized History books have avoided dealing with this very unflattering history behind the modern Democrat party and its seditious underbelly, the Copperheads. The key sentence here is “A large majority of copperheads ...can see no reason why they should be shot for the benefit of niggers and abolitionists”. I see strains of this psychological maladjustment coming down through the last 150 years through the Democrat Party to the present day, though they have managed to craft the exact opposite legacy for themselves, and and still successful at selling it to the voting public. Consider the notorious words of the lead attorney on the Roe V. Wade team, Ron Weddington, whose “principles” that led him to work to get that legislation passed , are ten times more racist than ANYTHING I have heard from “The Right”.
You know what “Roe versus Wade” was? A whole legislation to an exception.
Here, in Europe, it’s the same. They talk about raped women who would dream for abortion and they pass a whole law which would give the right to abort to anyone - including people who would have sex with anyone and who wouldn’t care about the child.
It’s just awesome - and it’s a serious manner of attacking the culture from inside.
Remember Mel Gibson’s Apocalypto: the Mayas saw their civilization be put down because they were doing sacrifice. Abortion is the same way to ruin the society from inside - implosion- the other manners are gay marriage, divorces, and attacks against family, and desire more important that love.
How can someone destroy a culture, a war effort, a whole civilization?
1) Putting doubt on the roots - the Founding Fathers, God, milutary or political heroes, defining events
2) Denying real tragedies and inventing new tragedies that would accuse the civilization, the people, the war. Or insisting about disturbing events that are a shame for the people, the “warmongers” or the civilization.
3) Putting relativism everywhere. Life is not as important as it seems (Darwin! The stronger survives, so kill your neighbour!). God doesn’t exist. Do what you feel correct. Putting relativism in culture: all civilizations are equal, all beliefs are equal, human rights depend of points of view. Putting relativism with evil: making compassionnate comments about criminals, dictators. Putting false questions : perhaps its THE DEVIL who is the victim, after all?!?
4) waiting for the Apocalypse.
Remember what John said in the Scriptures: people will believe what the Beast said.
Oklahoma’s memory is very good thank you and our knowledge of what happened at The Battle of the Washita comes from those who were there or had first hand knowledge of what happened.
I grew up in the same county that the the battle occurred in and when I was a small child quit a few people were still around who were children when it went down. What Custer did at Cheyenne was the same thing that LT Calley got prosecuted for at My Lai.
Custer was very lucky that Little Bighorn didn’t occur at Cheyenne. They left the campfires burning along the banks of the river and rode out in the middle of the night.
If you go to the Cheyenne, OK museum you can still see artifacts of the battle.
That’s not true. And you should know that.
The battle of the Washita was no massacre at all. I studied it during five years and published a book about it.
Please check your sources one more time.
Custer'a Battle of the Washita was a military offensive that should be honored. The Cheyennes were responsible of hundreds of high crimes and Custer did his best to prevent the killing of women and children, historians tell us this story today. I don't trust what Cheyenne say today, because they want to rewrite history for the "Blame America first" crusade. Do you know who Clara Blinn is ? Who Willie Blinn is ? Willie Blinn, 2 years old, was smashed against a tree by the Cheyennes at Washita while Custer was attacking. During their captivity, Clara and Willie were starving and Indians told them that they would be sold to Mexicans to be put in sexual slavery in Mexico. Black Kettle's Cheyennes deserved what they got - in fact, they were lucky to have just one battle. The whole Cheyenne band of warriors in Oklahoma should have been killed. The Cheyennes had killed more than 300 White civilians !!! The Black Kettle museum at the Washita BATTLEFIELD talks a lot about the Cheyennes massacres in Kansas, when Cheyennes killed hundreds of civilians. See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4534E1cCLyQ
Not true.
He was in battle with 1/3 of his regiment, and 2/3 never join him.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKeTsG2JpQA
You are exactly right in characterizing Roe v. Wade, even if a bit clumsily, as “a whole legislation to an exception”—I have said many things like that on these threads, and once again , “Great Minds think Alike”. The Left pretended it was about one thing, when in fact it was about another:
the only way they can continue pushing Roe and allowing no compromises on abortion rights, is if they keep pushing this same mythology that it is about ANYTHING LIKE woman’s “reproductive rights”(RBKA-—Right to Bear and Kill Babies), or in some nebulous way for “the protection of women” (as if there are serious legions of lunatic pro-lifers out there organized into cadres in ten thousand places across the USA, ready to go out and kidnap every woman planning an abortion, holding her until she comes to term) This is the way the Left has always wanted everyone to see it, and I have to fault the most extreme pro-Lifers for providing them with just that; in the process they have turned off millions to the cause by employing tactics a few times that are not so different from that same picture painted by the abortionistas ) that of course plus Eric Rudolph, who bombed and killed clinics and doctors.Once again the Left salivates at the prospect of any chance to “make a legislation out of an exception”, characterizing the entire Pro Life movement as if its goal was nothing more than to sponsor Eric Rudolph, and Operation Rescue. Abortion is even less about its purported ideals than the Civil War was about “freeing the slaves”, even Lincoln , who some considered the main murderous perpetrator, knew how vexing and complex it was from every point of view. Have you seen the thread from a few days ago featuring the chubby blonde woman shown holding up the dreaded “coathanger”? a symbol of such blatant misrepresentation and idiocy I have to shake my head and laugh.
I would also like to thank so called “conservatives” who think that losing an election would be good..
“Not true.
He was in battle with 1/3 of his regiment, and 2/3 never join him.”
Who was the commanding officer? It was his command and ultimately his responsibility for his troops. The defeat at Little Big Horn was caused by several things but comes down to a single fact. A complete failure of command.
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