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re: Not a word about Custer
Posted on 6/26/17 at 6:02 am to WhiskeyPapa
Posted on 6/26/17 at 6:02 am to WhiskeyPapa
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How could another June 25 pass without remembering America's most famous serial killers?
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Posted on 6/26/17 at 7:29 am to WhiskeyPapa
He died with shite in his pants....
Posted on 6/26/17 at 10:36 am to WhiskeyPapa
Errol Flynn played him in an old movie.
Custer was the most photographed American of the 19th Century. Partly because photography was just getting popular during his lifetime. And partly because he really liked having his photo taken.
Custer was the most photographed American of the 19th Century. Partly because photography was just getting popular during his lifetime. And partly because he really liked having his photo taken.
Posted on 6/26/17 at 4:58 pm to WhiskeyPapa
At least the British knew what not to do at Roarke's Drift couple years later
This post was edited on 6/26/17 at 5:00 pm
Posted on 6/26/17 at 5:04 pm to WhiskeyPapa
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How could another June 25 pass without remembering America's most famous soldier?
This is America's most famous soldier. Custer was incompetent ,and led his men to a slaughter.
This post was edited on 6/26/17 at 5:08 pm
Posted on 6/26/17 at 7:25 pm to WhiskeyPapa
Posted on 6/26/17 at 11:59 pm to WhiskeyPapa
In Ken Burns Civil War series, when he mentions Custer, he says something along the lines of "at Gettysburg was a young Lieutenant named George Armstrong Custer"...and just leaves it at that.
He doesn't elaborate. Why? It's freaking Custer...the guy in movies, the last stand!
If Custer had to be explained, they would have gone on.
But in pop culture that would be like having to explain, "in the audience was a young Cassius Clay...who was a boxer and would go on to win heavyweight titles."
But Burns trusted his audience education. And this was 1990.
Not 1890.
I have no idea why a generation of students wouldn't know who Custer is beyond the assumption that the War against the Indians is taught no longer because PC.
Nobody is saying he was great but he's a household name like Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid.
Sort of scary to me that some wouldn't recognize that name. Scary to Ken Burns too.
He doesn't elaborate. Why? It's freaking Custer...the guy in movies, the last stand!
If Custer had to be explained, they would have gone on.
But in pop culture that would be like having to explain, "in the audience was a young Cassius Clay...who was a boxer and would go on to win heavyweight titles."
But Burns trusted his audience education. And this was 1990.
Not 1890.
I have no idea why a generation of students wouldn't know who Custer is beyond the assumption that the War against the Indians is taught no longer because PC.
Nobody is saying he was great but he's a household name like Wyatt Earp and Billy the Kid.
Sort of scary to me that some wouldn't recognize that name. Scary to Ken Burns too.
This post was edited on 6/27/17 at 12:00 am
Posted on 6/27/17 at 5:56 am to WhiskeyPapa
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