I still have my copy of the message from him, stating and I quote...
“Our cause is just ! Now you must be the thunder and the lightning of Desert Storm. May God be with you, your loved ones at home, and our country.
H. Norman Schwarzkoph, Commander in Chief, U.S. Central Command.”
Thank you General for letting us do what we were trained to do when needed and keeping the polidiots and presstitutes off our asses during the first gulf war.....RIP Sir.
Thank you for your service. The term “soldier’s general” came to mind as I read your note, so I did a search:
http://wtvr.com/2012/12/27/source-retired-gen-norman-schwarzkopf-dead-at-78/
Excerpts:
Van Hipp, who was deputy assistant secretary of the Army during the Gulf War, said Schwarzkopf was a “soldier’s general.”
“They called him ‘Stormin’ Norman’ for a reason,” Hipp said. “But in the end he was a guy. He was a teddy bear. He was tough. He was gruff, but he cared about his troops, and he cared about his soldiers.”...
His father, Major Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, a West Point graduate who fought in World War I, became head of New Jersey State Police, helping to build the fledgling force and eventually leading the investigation of the infamous Lindbergh baby kidnapping.
“The day I was born, my father said… ‘That boy is going to West Point,” Schwarzkopf recalled to King. “And that’s the only thing I ever heard my entire young life.”.....
“I prided myself on being unflappable even in the most chaotic of circumstances,” he wrote. “That guise lasted until Vietnam, where I realized that I was dealing with human lives and if one were lost, it could never be replaced. I quickly learned that there was nothing wrong with being emotional.”
He was commissioned a second lieutenant and served two tours of duty in Vietnam, where he received three Silver Stars.