Quiz for our US friends - and everybody else
Which US generals did or said this:
1) Was a Field Marshal.
2) Had a mistress locked in for years in their Washington home.
3) Beleived that President Truman still just was a WW 1 Captain in the Artillery reserve.
4) Said that Dwight D. Eisenhower once was his best clerk.
5) Wanted to drop a third nuclear bomb.
6) Wrote this that could still today be read on a stone portal in West Point:
"Upon the fields of friendly strife
Are sown the seeds
That upon other fields on other days
Will bear the fruits of victory".
7) As COS of "Rainbow Division" (?) and Col got a Distinguished Service Cross.
8) Had a father who held a high position in another US-related country wich he himself also achieved.
9) Was the teacher of Col Eisenhower in the art of dramatic behaviour.
10) As a Brigadier General commanded 84th Inf Bde in France and received the Distingiushed Service Medal.
So there are ten questions. Please come up with an answer.
The Old Walrus wishes.
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Foxhole sends
Last edited by Stellan Bojerud (RIP); 26-12-04 at 02:08.
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