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To: InvisibleChurch

Pershing had same rank ...


6 posted on 08/10/2013 9:00:06 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: Lmo56

Same rank, but Washington had seniority ;)


8 posted on 08/10/2013 9:04:52 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: Lmo56
Yes, even though he only wore four stars. But they were in gold, not silver. They designed a six star rank, in case we had to invade Japan, for MacArthur, so he'd outrank all the allied field marshals.


9 posted on 08/10/2013 9:27:41 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (I aim to raise a million plus for Gov. Palin. What'll you do?.)
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To: Lmo56

And Pershing was General of the Armies before Washington was.

I don’t care for honors after death. I don’t care for the idea of promoting Lieutenant General Leslie McNair to 4 star general after his death in Normandy (from a US bomb).

Sure McNair went forward from his safe position in the US in an attempt to better understand the war, and he died as a result of doing that, which he perceived as his duty.

I don’t think that it should be the business of the US government to create legal lies by act of congress. Such an act I think is degrading the congress, and they don’t have credibility points to give away.


17 posted on 08/11/2013 3:36:30 AM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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To: Lmo56

I thought US Grant did as well.


24 posted on 08/11/2013 5:56:14 AM PDT by TalBlack (Evil doesn't have a day job.)
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