- Jeff -
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- An economist friend in Germany called me this afternoon.
He mentioned that it is the US 7th Cavalry that is leading the march through
Iraq.
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- The 7th Cavalry is the only military unit ever to lose
all of its members in battle.
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- It is the unit that was led by General George A. Custer
at the Little Big Horn.
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- He said that in Europe such units are retired.
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- He spent nine years in military service.
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- Gayle
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- Is Baghdad Bush's Little Big Horn?
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- The U. S. 7th Calvary Is Leading The Charge On
Baghdad
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- By Tony Naz
- WarFolly.com
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- The United States juggernaut assault on Baghdad stands to
become the decisive battle of the Iraq War. President George Walker
Bush and General George Armstrong Custer seem to have very similar personality
traits. Could George W. Bush be the reincarnation of Gen. Custer?
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- As Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Armed Forces, a sense
of deja-vu can be felt for Bush reprising the role of the arrogant, vainglorious
General Custer. The 7th Calvary is poised on the brink of history once
again. This time they will be facing Iraqis instead of Indians. Here is
a brief biography of General Custer:
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- George Armstrong Custer emerged from West Point at the
bottom of his class where he had amassed a huge number of demerits. His
success in the Civil War might be attributed to his unorthodox methods
and the wild charges he led with no concern for the scouting reports, if
he ever read them. He had the highest casualty figures among the Union
division commanders. However, he himself emerged unscathed.
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- After the war he was made lieutenant-colonel of the Seventh
Cavalry on America's western frontier. Custer is best remembered for losing
the battle of Little Big Horn in which his troops faced combined bands
of Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho Indians led by the chief Sitting
Bull. The battle ended with Custer's troops on a knoll encircled by Indians
a moment which became known as Custer's Last Stand; Custer and his entire
force of 220 men were killed. The battle made Custer a popular American
hero and martyr for nearly a century, but by the late 1900s his stardom
faded a bit as his tactics were more closely examined and as popular attitudes
toward Native Americans changed.
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- Will American support for Operation Iraqi Freedom diminish
due to heavy casualties and the battle for Baghdad be remembered in
history as Bush's Little Bighorn? I hope the worst case scenario will be
averted. Only time will tell.
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- Comment
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- From Dave Golo
davegolo@earthlink.net
3-31-3
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- In regard to the email that stated the 7th Cavalry was
wiped out at the Little Big Horn. It simply isn't true. One company, the
company led by Custer, was annihilated that day. However, Custer had split
the regiment. The soldiers under the command of Capts. Reno and Benteen
(spelling), after attempting to attack the main Indians camp and being
repelled, were besieged some miles away from the Custer debacle. After
several days of being dug in, the Sioux departed and those companies escaped.
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- From G Meade
3-31-3
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- November 1965 - Ia Drang Valley, South Viet Nam:
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- 1st Bat/7th Cav and 2nd Bat/7th Cav (as well as the 8th,
9th 12th Cav, etc) under the command of Col. Hal Moore sustained HEAVY
losses...
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- Years later - Moore stated: during the battle(s) at
LZ X-Ray and LZ Albany (Ia Drang) he thought of the Battle of Little Big
Horn (7th Cav) and wondered if history would 'repeat itself'...in the Central
Highlands of Viet Nam.
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