We used to be serious about repelling invasion...
Uncle Sam: "I've had about enough of this."
General Pershing headed into Mexico.
The end of Pancho Villa, 1923... 
We need another invasion into Mexico.
Indeed...what most people don’t know is that was the first example of mechanized warfare using automobiles as they did!
Yes. Patton was the real deal. He had flaws, but I have always thought his flaws made him far more interesting and effective!
LOL, currently listening to a 48 hour audiobook about Ulysees S. Grant...another very flawed man whose flaws make him more interesting to me.
So, why hasn’t this been made into a Dodge/Ram commercial yet?
The Columbus raid was interesting in that the town pretty much turned out armed and took on the raiders.
The raiders also attacked the wrong end of town first. The military detachment was able to get armed and organized (somewhat) and aid in the defense.
The raiders that were killed were placed in a pile with railroad ties and other wood and then burned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Columbus_(1916)
A great General; his men, well supplied with whiskey, followed him wherever.
We used to be serious about repelling invasion...
Uncle Sam: "I've had about enough of this."
General Pershing headed into Mexico.
The end of Pancho Villa, 1923...
Deep State didn’t develop into the gargantuan it is today overnight:
Who thinks they wouldn’t kill a charismatic, effective General who started saying and doing things they didn’t like..?
It’s not all crazy, the stories about Patton’s death.
When I was a sophomore in high school, my World History teacher, a veteran of WWII told us this story.
What a wonderful ,uplifting story!! BUILD THE DAMNED WALL!! I appreciate Trump so much. Even though he promised not to sign any spending bill with out the wall fully paid for ,I hear he will renege on his pledge before the election. He knew when he made the promise that it was before the election but I fear he has fallen to soft advisors with secret deep state motives.Trump is not perfect. We must cut him some slack but we all heard what he said.
The Ballad of Pancho López--Lalo Guerrero (1955)
I have visited Pershing’s HQ in Columbus, NM. It is now named Pancho Villa State Park. Stupid Americans!
My grandfather ran around that area on a horse named Babe while in the cavalry as a young man. I have pics I need to transfer to the computer one day.
the story in my family is: my g’father rode with Pershing chasin Villa.
He would never talk of it or his WW1 combat experience (he suffered from mustard gas exposure).
The stories about him were even more incredible.
What I do remember is, he was a 5 foot nuthin irishman where people stepped aside when he walked by.
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There is a lot about Paton that most people don’t know. For example he started the first tank training school for the US military in France of all places (using 22 tanks supplied by the French because the US had no tanks to speak of), and was instrumental in sitting up the US tanks corps which he led to battle in WWI.
Patton should’ve become President in 1948.
*** Always ready for a fight, Patton pushed on to Las Cienegas (Springs), his men riding in three Dodge touring cars. ***
The father of American mechanized warfare invents the drive-by shooting.
