Great minds of the past

[Ninurta]

Why are you dodging like this? They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance.

--last words of General John Sedgwick, Union Army.

Reports that he never finished the sentence are apocryphal, although the line was among his last words.  He was shot by a Whitworth rifle moments later under the left eye and mortally wounded.

For the Vietnam veterans -- it was in honor of this general that Firebase Sedgwick of the 25th Division was named.


TROPIC LIGHTNING

Cheers

I had an uncle who did a couple tours in Vietnam who wore that patch for one of them, 4th Transport Div out of Saigon for the other. He was the guy they sent out from the division to recover tracks that had been disabled in ambushes and the ones that had tracks blown off by road mines. Always had to be some smartass sitting and waiting for someone to come after the disabled equipment so he could try to light up their life. 

When he wasn't doing that, he was making deliveries to SF firebases. SF troopers used to ask him if he was crazy, or just stupid, to run the gauntlet to bring stuff out to them, and he usually said "neither - just lucky".

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