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'Custer . . . was a brave, brilliant soldier, handsome and dashing, but he was reckless, hasty and impulsive, preferring to make a daredevil rush and take risks rather than to move slower and with more certainty, and it was his own mad-cap haste, rashness and love of fame that cost him his own life, and cost the service the loss of many brave officers and gallant men. He preferred to make a reckless dash and take the consequences, in the hope of making a personal victory and adding to the glory of another charge, rather than wait for a sufficiently powerful force to make the fight successful and share the glory with others. He took the risk and he lost.'

-- Chicago Tribune (7th July, 1876)

'I regard Custer's Massacre was a sacrifice of troops, brought on by Custer himself, that was wholly unnecessary - wholly unnecessary.'

-- President Ulysses Grant,
interviewed by the New York Herald (2nd September, 1876)

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1968 Lyle Menendez NY, accused of killing his parents (Menendez Brothers)

And the sad thing was that after that he was an orphan.

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The Gatling Gun Patent Drawing
By Richard Jordan Gatling, 1865
Ink and watercolor on paper
14-1/4" x 18-1/2"
National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Patent and Trademark Office
The Gatling Gun
The Gatling gun was the first successful rapid-fire machine gun. Invented by Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling, a physician, the first model had six barrels revolving around a central axis. Gen. Benjamin F. Butler of the Union Army first used the gun at the siege of Petersburg, Virginia, in 1864-65. Shown here are two drawings of the improved 10-barrel, .30-caliber model which fired 400 rounds a minute. The gun was patented on May 9, 1865, and was officially adopted by the U.S. Army on August 21, 1866. It proved superior to other rapid-fire guns of the time and, for more than 40 years, the Gatling gun was used by almost every world power.

"Battery Gun"
By Richard Jordan Gatling, 1865
Ink and watercolor on paper
18 3/4" x 14 1/4"
National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Patent and Trademark Office

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M134 7.62mm minigun (GAU-2B/A)

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This just in: Porter Goss has pink-slipped Dr. Henry Kissinger, Bob "I'm a Clymer" Kerrey, and Adm. William Crowe from card night at Langley.

Here's to President Richard Nixon for doing the bombing LBJ refused to do the very month and year Hal Moore led his team to such a victory.

The kinder, gentler comes after their hearts and minds are pounded to mush.

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THE GATLING GUN

A fascinating page of facts regarding Gatling and his gun. And the true origin of the term Indianapolis Colts.

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1985 Daniel Ortega Saavedra inaugurated as President of Nicaragua

John "Cambodian Shambo" Kerry, Tom Heapodung, Mary Mapes, Daniel "Rapist de su Hija" Ortega, 1985

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CBS still can't say its documents were forged--but we can. Anyone with Microsoft Word can duplicate what was impossible in 1973.