[SoftwareEngineer]

One criticism for the author: it was the Spanish-American War, not the "Philippine-American War."

Exactly!! That line annoyed me no end! Filipinos are our friends. We libertated them (and the Cubans and Puerto Ricans) in that war. We liberated them again in 1945

A warm salute to our Filipino friends on this board! Thank you for your warm friendship towards these United States

[tumblindice]

Yep. “Moros.” From the Spanish word for `Moors’: Muslims. We’ve always had problems with them. See photo above, 51.

They would get hopped up on something and the .38 wasn’t stopping them, so the Army contacted Mr. Browning for a .45 caliber handgun.

I started out with Browning’s P-35, or Hi-Power, and it led me to CZ line. The CZ .45 has 11 round capacity and, in my opinion, a more comfortable grip.

[katana]

Errr, we fought a revolt by elements among those friends from 1899 to 1913. The M1911 (along with John Pershing’s policy of burying dead Muslim Moro fighters in hog carcasses) helped us eventually win. Quick synopsis is at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippine_insurrection