I guess I should not have been so hard on the RCMP Trooper that went tits up on the parade field. At least Canada has a mounted unit. North Dakota used to have a mounted 7th Calvary Unit that reenacted the day Lt. Col. George Custer left Ft. Abraham Lincoln in the Dakota Territories and headed with the 7th Calvary to Little Big Horn. This is all that is left of that beautiful mounted drill team I used to marvel at as a child.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Apologies to the RCMP
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Wade G. Burck
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That's really too bad. Particularly in the Plains there's a place for the memory of the cavalry, good and bad. A couple years ago we played next Fort Robinson in NE. I guess from the 1870's through the 1930's it was primary cavalry resupply post buying and training horses, and even K9s during WWII. At one point they had 12,000 horses there. Now there's just the ghost of all those hoof beats.
Wade, Comanche (the horse that survived the Little Big Horn) is one of only two horses in US history to be buried with full military honors. The other is Black Jack.
Mary Ann
Mary Ann,
That's only because my first war horse Dynamite is buried at the farm, and I didn't want him exhumed and moved.
Wade
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