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Originally posted by justamom
"...and of course-Paul is Dead...
Delt Alum-I've never had the privilege to see the Little Bighorn Battlefield. It seems like so much is now a part of history that the settlers and the western migration are little more than footnotes.
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That's why Paul was wearing white on the Abbey Road album, you know...you may now roll your eyes again.
As for Little Bighorn, as trite as it sounds, I was moved by the experience. It wasn't at all what I expected. I also didn't realize that there was a national cemetery there -- even though Custer and most of the other remains have been moved to Arlington or other places, there are hundreds of graves of vets of other wars.
The visit (and the documentary) did tend to confirm what history now pretty much reveals -- that Custer was remarkably arrogant and really fouled up big time.
As an aside, the Affirmative Action thread and this one finally got me off the dime, and even though I'm recognized by employers as Native American, I've written to the Cherokee Nation to attempt to extablish formal tribal recognition. We'll see what happens.
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