The FReeper Foxhole Profiles General H. Norman Schwarzkopf - Nov. 1, 2003

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[stand watie]

ODDLY ENOUGH, i HAVE heard the rebel yell, from a CSA veteran.

in 1957, i was on a school field trip to the historic Jefferson Pilgramage (TX), when i saw a VERY old man sitting under a tree in the city park;he was playing a zither & singing very softly. being the NOSEY kid that i was, i went over and asked him what he was singing. he said "I'm just a good 'ole rebel".

i asked him where he learned the song & he said, "it was a real favorite in my company during the WAR.".

i said (EYES WIDE!), "YOU were a rebel soldier???"

he said, "sonny, i was a drummer boy from '61 to '63, when they gived up & gived me a musket;after that i was a private. i was near 14 years old at Appromattox."

i asked him what he did in the war & he said that he mostly, "stole food from the damnyankees."

later that afternoon, he did the REBEL YELL for me;trust me, after hearing that, i KNEW why the damnyankees used to throw down their weapons & run to the rear! it was BONECHILLING & BLOODCURDLEING!

i asked him if i could come to his house & record the yell;he said "YEP, you can boy".

my dad (like so many adults) paid me no mind about wanting to drive to "some ole man's house";i kept "bugging him" & one Saturday morning he told me to go get the tape recorder & we'd go see him.

when we got there, a fellow came out on the porch & asked us what we wanted & i showed him the note the 'ole rebel gave me. he stood there a few pregnant seconds & finally said, "Sonny, papa went to Glory, last Sunday after meeting;we buried him on Tuesday last."

so, now you know why i HEARD the REBEL YELL, but do NOT have a recording of it! PITY!

free the southland,sw

[stand watie]

see 61.

free dixie,sw

[snippy_about_it]

Gone to Glory.

:(

I'm glad at least you got to hear it.

[SAMWolf]

A sad story Stand Watie.

But you had the honor of meeting and talking to him and hearing the Rebel Yell from a Vet. It's a shame you didin't get a recording.

[stand watie]

i remember it as well as if was yesterday!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

YEP & YEP!

btw, i was just thinking about how much things have changed since '57. the (portable????) WOLLENSAK recorder i had in those days weighed about 50 POUNDS & took 8-inch reels! it was a BEAR to lug around when i was a kid.

free dixie,sw

[Soaring Feather]

Wow what a story!! Thanks so much for posting it.

How sad you did not get the recording.

[stand watie]

YEP! bothers me still.

as far as i know there are NO recordings of REAL Rebels doing the Rebel Yell! PITY!

free dixie,sw

[colorado tanker]

Phil Silvers was really funny. I loved him in Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, too. Hhaaaaaiup!

[colorado tanker]

Guys, this is no sh!t. When Bush 41 indicated we would fight for Kuwait, I sketched out what I thought would be the battle plan for a friend on a restaurant paper napkin. I sketched a double envelopment, with an armored left hook coming to the west of Kuwait and an amphibious right cross coming in from the Gulf. Still have the napkin.

My understanding is Schwartzkopf called off a Marine landing when intel showed the Iraqis had thinned their front lines to defend the beaches from a landing, thereby basically accomplishing the Marines' objective without firing a shot.

[snippy_about_it]

I believe you! You should protect the napkin and put it in a display case with Schwarzkopf's plan.

Hey, Foxhole folks are brilliant, we already knew that!!!

[SAMWolf]

LOL! I had a reel to reel that I got at the PX in Vietnam. Things sure have changed.

[SAMWolf]

I believe it, CT. It's the way I would have done it. Why hit the MLR when you can go araound it. Worked for the Germans in 1940.

[colorado tanker]

Thanks, Snippy. Although like Sam indicated it is a plan that would be pretty obvious to military minds. Two things helped, though. Saddam and others probably thought we wouldn't go into Iraq as distinct from Kuwait, reminiscent of how we avoided Cambodia, Laos and N. Vietnam all those years. Second, like Hitler, Saddam is a dumb general.

It's interesting Schwartzkopf get criticizm for letting the Marines advance too fast on Kuwait City - heck, I didn't think they could move that fast, either! LOL!