Custer's Bugler, Playing the Subway?

The New York Times ^ | July 29, 2003 | RANDY KENNEDY

[Pharmboy]

This story was too good not to post. How did kattracks miss it?

[Pharmboy]

Please ping your western civ list for this one...

[SnuffaBolshevik]

5,000 Sioux couldn't get him but a beer truck did. Bummer.

[Pharmboy]

LOL! That, unfortunately, sums it up...

[BluH2o]

... on a Brooklyn street: he was run down by a beer truck and succumbed a few days later to his injuries.

Run down by a beer truck ... ignoble perhaps, but for an old soldier not exactly the worse way to go.

[Pharmboy]

Ping

[x1stcav]

This is wild. I thought I was the only one with a relative like this.

I had a great (great, great?) uncle who fought with Garibaldi (Cavalry officer) and then came to the States and, according to family legend, fought in the US Army against the plains Indians.

He returned to Scicily in the 1890's but his son fought in the Spanish American War. He too returned to Scicily, in the 1920's. My father was about 10 or 12 at the time and remembers the fellow quite well.

I wonder how many other Italians/Scicilians found themselves in the military during this period?

[Pharmboy]

Certainly better than a milk truck...

[Pharmboy]

Well, the timing was right, and if you wanted to fight and you were Italian, and the Garibaldi thing was over...YOU CAME HERE!

A bit of American history that I was unaware of--thanks for your most interesting addition.

[U S Army EOD]

Well Billy the Kid was born in Brooklyn and Pat Garrett ended up working for a New York newspaper.

[Sparta]

If you want on or off the Western Civilization Military History ping list, let me know.

[Pharmboy]

Thanks, man...

[BluH2o]

Certainly better than a milk truck...

Or having your scalp hanging from an Indians (excuse me ... native Americans) trophy spear.

[Pharmboy]

I guess this would be really extended news...

[snippy_about_it]

Thanks for the ping.

A beer truck. I'll be darned.

[SAMWolf]

Thanks for the ping Sparta.

Intersesting story Pharmboy, thanks for the post.

[Pharmboy]

You're most welcome. When it comes to stories like this, it's hard to beat the NY Times. If they only would keep their opinions to themselves...

[budwiesest]

WHOA! WHOA! Horsies!

[Shooter 2.5]

Are you sure you're not writing about Bat Masterson who ended up as a New York Sports Writer?

Christopher Spencer of the famous carbine ended his career working on helicopters. At age 89, before his death in 1922 he was able to take flying lessons.

[Shooter 2.5]

Jeremiah[Liver eatin'] Johnson visited his sister in California and mentioned he didn't want to be buried there.

Oops. He was buried in L.A.

When the movie came out, there was enough interest to re-bury the body in a more suitable place. He was buried in Cody, Wyoming and Robert Redford was one of the pallbearers.