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re: Little known LSU facts...
Posted on 12/25/12 at 7:17 am to TigersOfGeauxld
Posted on 12/25/12 at 7:17 am to TigersOfGeauxld
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You gonna believe the nut squeezers over LSU? Sheesh.
Might have something to do with "active duty". Maybe the nut squeezers (I'm liking that moniker) had a bunch of inactives.
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Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:06 am to TigersOfGeauxld
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Superintendent William Tecumseh Sherman
...and like Sherman LSU frequently burns our opponent into the ground when in Atlanta....GO TIGERS !!!
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:09 am to TigersOfGeauxld
Here is a little known fact. I have pissed on the big oak tree next to the roundabout on campus late after every home game for the past three years
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:55 am to jdd267
I always found it interesting that Sherman ordered that LSU not be touched.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 1:15 am to Penrod
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Might have something to do with "active duty". Maybe the nut squeezers (I'm liking that moniker) had a bunch of inactives.
That's what I was thinking, too. ATM only says it put out more officers than the service academies. LSU claims more than anyone. Legalese ftw.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 9:42 am to TigersOfGeauxld
David French Boyd and William Sherman after the war wrote each other over the years and Sherman would help LSU when he could after the war.
Sherman's letter to David Boyd on December 24, 1860:
You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it... Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth—right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.
It was Sherman's intervention that got his exchanged and return to the south after he was captured by Jayhawkers after being sold to the Union Army.
Sherman's letter to David Boyd on December 24, 1860:
You people of the South don't know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don't know what you're talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it... Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth—right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.
It was Sherman's intervention that got his exchanged and return to the south after he was captured by Jayhawkers after being sold to the Union Army.
This post was edited on 12/27/12 at 10:01 am
Posted on 12/27/12 at 10:06 am to TigersOfGeauxld
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LSU's military history began more than 150 years ago
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during World War II
Posted on 12/27/12 at 10:11 am to J Murdah
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J Murdah
I think you need assistance with reading comprehension.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 10:13 am to chucknorris89
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Sherman actually burned it during the civil war because he was a northern general.
Burned LSU (or what would become LSU)? That's not true.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 10:18 am to Mo Jeaux
Holy shite, you're right. I read it as if they were talking about the Civil War.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 10:26 am to J Murdah
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Holy shite, you're right. I read it as if they were talking about the Civil War.
In all fairness, it was not the most elegantly drafted sentence.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 10:48 am to Mo Jeaux
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:47 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
Gen. Troy Middleton, who was the former President of LSU, was a corps commander during WWII. It was his section of the Ardennes that the Germans hit when they launched the Battle of the Bulge.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 12:54 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
It wasn't that long ago that freshmen at LSU had to join the ROTC. I don't know if it was compulsory for upper classmen.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 1:00 pm to boxcarbarney
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It wasn't that long ago that freshmen at LSU had to join the ROTC
all male frosh up until 1970
Posted on 12/27/12 at 1:04 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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That's what I was thinking, too. ATM only says it put out more officers than the service academies. LSU claims more than anyone. Legalese ftw.
Clemson provided more Army officers than anyone other than A&M during WWII. Sounds like both schools(and A&M) have a proud military heritage.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 1:07 pm to PDTigerfan
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Clemson provided more Army officers than anyone other than A&M during WWI
now we have three schools making that claim?
I've heard in the current war it's atm and LSU with the most again. Wherever we rank, it seems we don't shy away from a fight.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 1:27 pm to 777Tiger
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Clemson provided more Army officers than anyone other than A&M during WWI now we have three schools making that claim?
Read what each school is saying...ATM says more than the service academies. Clemson says more Army officers. LSU says most officers total.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 1:41 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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Read what each school is saying
I know, I know. Everyone puts their own little spin on it, but the fact of the matter is all of these institutions should be proud of their service records, and there's plenty more. The Citadel, VMI, hate to say it, but Auburn, hell Northwestern State probably churned out as many future helo pilots during Nam as anybody.
Posted on 12/27/12 at 2:00 pm to rsbd
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Yawn!!
Obviously posted by a guy who never served.
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