[SwinneySwitch]

I never picked cotton.

[cyborg]

Very interesting story.

[jocon307]

Great post, it was very intresting to learn more about Gen. Sanchez after seeing him on the TV.

We've got some great, brave, down to earth fellows putting their lives on the line to defend us. For this I am personally grateful every day.

[Maria S]

Always interesting to me to see how childhood and adolescent hardships and adversities affect different people.

[Servant of the 9]

I never picked cotton.

Like the General, one day was enough for me.
It doesn't require the physical strength of haying, but it's at least as hard a job.

So9

[LADY J]

"Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez commander of coalition forces in Iraq since June 14."

Big difference between Lt. Gen. Ricardo S. Sanchez and the 'perfumed prince'.

God bless him and keep him and his troops safe from harm.

[stop_fascism]

Great story. Not surprising that main stream media has ignored it.

[hobson]

I picked cotton when I was 6 years old and they paid me 1.00 a sack. I thought I soooo grown up! Kids these days can't have those kind of experiences. You know, child labor and all. Too bad.

[VOA]

I never picked cotton.

Me either.
But I did work with cotton plants doing my graduate degree on plant biochemistry.

While I didn't get the full effect, it was something to be in the field, bent over or on
knees to work with the plants, from sun-up to sunset, with some days being 100 deg. F
with as much humidity as the air could carry.

And, as an average white guy, to see sone fellow workers from places like
Bangledesh have to beg off from the heat.

It did give me a feeling about history --
You can see how anyone would rationalize the enslaving of other human beings
to do that sort of work.

[solo gringo]

Swinnyswitch you have never picked cotton well let me tell you i have and you haven't missed a damn thing.It is hard work and you get plenty of sore fingers from the stickers from the boll spurs.

My grandson has served under Gen Sanchez in baghdad and he is one of my grandsons hero.He said he was tough but a regular G.I.

We have a new school here in Rio Grande City,Texas named General Rick Sanchez Elementary school how cool is that

[Lazamataz]

I never picked cotton.

That's why you're not a General.

[yarddog]

I picked cotton from the age of about 7 until we moved to town at age 12. I got 3 cents a pound and thought it was good money. My Uncle Buck would pay us when he took cotton to the gin. They first thing I bought was a monopoly set which I still have nearly 50 years later.

The first money I ever earned was at age 5 picking peanuts for a neighbor whose allotment was too small to justify a peanut picking machine. The first day I earned 35 cents which seemed like a fortune.

[TexasTransplant]

A story that fits the Man, his Wife and his Mother.