Another salute to NObama’s unknown & hidden ‘education’.
He doesn’t even know the details about Custer.
I went to a one-room school thru 7th grade. I knew Custer was NOT a General.
It would appear that what Zero doesn’t know is far more massive than what he knows. I mean, how much room does it take in a brain to say, “I’m the messiah! So follow me wherever I go. I go in circles.”
I think your issue is with the, uh, journalist who penned the article, or the editor who concocted the headline for the story.
Nowhere in the accompanying article does custer appear as a general.
Custer was given the rank of brevet major general for his gallantry in the Civil War, but he rose to lieutenant colonel in actual Regular Army rank. In general it's not wrong to refer to someone by the highest honorary rank they've held.
Actually, during the Civil War, Custer held the brevet rank of Major General, and IIRC, was the youngest person to have done so. Following the war, with the reduction of the Army, he was bumped back down to Lieutenant Colonel, which is the rank he held at the time he was killed.
Didn’t Custer hold the brevet or temporary rank of Brigadier General during the Civil War (War between the States, War of Northern Agression) and was reduced to his permanent rank of Lt. Colonel after the war?
“Another salute to NObama’s unknown & hidden ‘education’.
He doesn’t even know the details about Custer.
I went to a one-room school thru 7th grade. I knew Custer was NOT a General.”
IIRC, it’s customary to refer to a deceased military person by their highest rank held. General would be correct, socially anyway, even though IIRC he was a Lieutenant Colonel when he died.