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To: grapeape
I toasted John Buford tonight!

"He [Buford] despised the false flourish and noisy parade of the charlatans of the service and avoided, too much, perhaps, the proper praise due to his glorious actions and sought to depreciate, prompted by his inherent modesty, the contemporary glorification which less worthy men coveted. For this reason he was not known to the newspaper world as were many others who will sink into insignificance while the name of Buford will occupy a bright page in the history of his country."
Wesley Merritt, Rock Island Daily Union, July 11, 1895

69 posted on 07/01/2003 10:35:30 AM PDT by carlo3b (http://www.CookingWithCarlo.com)
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To: carlo3b
I've grown up with people like him. I've known so many people like him it's almost like I can here him talking. My gunny was like that. I'll have another dirnk this evening for the rest of his men. At least we remember the job they did and the sacrifice they made.
78 posted on 07/01/2003 11:44:52 AM PDT by grapeape (Will posters start putting something on your about pages so we know who we are talking to?)
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