Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

To: ansel12
"It was a massacre of American GIs, even the wounded and POWs were cruelly murdered to the last man."

Well your 7th Cavalry was going to attack their camp full of their families - women, children and old people. Would you do any different? The American military was in the middle of a program of genocide that planes Indians so I don't have much in sympathy for them. I grew up 40 miles from that battlefield and went to school with many of the great grandchildren of those fighters so I think I speak with some authority.

13 posted on 08/20/2022 1:54:43 PM PDT by WMarshal (Neocons and leftards are the same species of vicious rat.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies ]


To: WMarshal

Wow, one of those, Americans are being trained to identify with our enemies, even to the murdering of our troops, hatred of our people, and our history.


17 posted on 08/20/2022 2:23:54 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]

To: WMarshal

What kind of planes did the Indians operate?

I recall the alternate history story, “Custer’s Last Jump”.

The 7th were an Air Cavalry, ballon infantry unit attempting a vertical envelopment of the Indian encampment when the unit was interdicted and destroyed by Geronimo leading a flight of mothballed Confederate Air Force biplanes.


18 posted on 08/20/2022 2:24:35 PM PDT by skepsel ("A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime", Mark Twain.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]

To: WMarshal

And the indians were still rounded up and put on reservations, so what’s your point


31 posted on 08/20/2022 3:26:39 PM PDT by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!you)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]

To: WMarshal

When I visited, I took the park bus tour. The guide was a middle-aged Indian woman who casually mentioned that she was Crow. Whether she lived on the reservation or not, I don’t know.

Being my usual bull in the china shop self, I naturally asked if she got any static from Sioux and Cheyenne visitors about the Crow having been allied with the U.S. As you probably know, Custer’s scouts were Crow.

She smiled and said, “All the time, but we don’t shed blood over it anymore, except on the basketball court.”

The battlefield IS on Crow land, so if I wanted to be fussy about it, the 7th Cavalry was assisting the Crow in repelling a hostile raid.


45 posted on 08/20/2022 4:22:37 PM PDT by sphinx
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]

To: WMarshal

Relative of Custer here. Your paks relatives slaughtered the 7th but according to Sittig Bull, on his authority, they lost the war winning the battle. Slaughter and horrendous acts abound Thursday Ohio from 1780s to about 1815.

Ft. Recovery Ohio is the first sight of Indians wiping out 600 soldiers, 400 volunteers and nearby 300 camp folders. At my Grandmother’s farm I had collected 7 guide on irons, 3 soldiers under the barn, 200+ arrow heads, buttons, flintlock. Grandpa was an Indian and we fed the bones of 3 soldiers and two horse’s to the dogs when I was 7. Dad beat my ass.


52 posted on 08/20/2022 5:47:34 PM PDT by Jumper ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]

To: WMarshal

“The American military was in the middle of a program of genocide that planes Indians so I don’t have much ...”

What kinds of planes were the Plains Indians using? Fighter-bombers?


70 posted on 08/20/2022 7:39:13 PM PDT by Jay W
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]

To: WMarshal
I grew up 40 miles from that battlefield and went to school with many of the great grandchildren of those fighters so I think I speak with some authority..

Well then, you should know that its Plains Indians not planes indians

("The American military was in the middle of a program of genocide that planes Indians..." )

76 posted on 08/20/2022 8:31:39 PM PDT by pfflier
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]

To: WMarshal

The problem wasn’t primarily the soldiers, it was the corrupt politicians and businessmen who lied to and cheated the Indians.


132 posted on 08/21/2022 5:27:10 PM PDT by alternatives? (The only reason to have an army is to defend your borders.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson