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To: conservatism_IS_compassion

“What do you suppose that President, renowned four-star general, Eisenhower thought of that!”

He would have thought that you had shorted him one star.


23 posted on 12/03/2011 10:10:54 PM PST by Pelham (Islam. The original Evil Empire)
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To: Pelham
“What do you suppose that President, renowned four-star general, Eisenhower thought of that!”
He would have thought that you had shorted him one star.
I am astonished that you are correct and that I hadn't known, and don't retrospectively remember having known, that.
Interesting to learn in Wiki that George Washington was in 1976 posthumously promoted to the rank of "General of the Armies of the United States."

24 posted on 12/04/2011 12:13:14 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (DRAFT PALIN)
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