Gen’l Washington and the five stars.
January 2nd, 2009 From
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> >In the Second War, things were regularized a bit. We ended up with
> >’General of the Army’ as MacArthur didn’t want the same grade as Pershing
> >(they had never gotten along) and Marshall didn’t want to be ‘Field Marshal
> >Marshall’. We ended up with ‘Fleet Admiral’ as Ernie King detested the
> >British and so objected to the use of their grade, ‘Admiral of the Fleet’.
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> >If something happened to move our first President up on the retired list,
> >I’d not heard about it. I doubt if he did, either.
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> >Marc
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> >Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir!
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>Thankee much Marc for the wonderful post. I would guess that if George could
>have observed any of this from wherever “divine providence” originates, he
>would claim complete indifference to sharing rank with other leaders, but
>secretly be ticked as hell. Might be a good thing that MacArthur didn’t get
>into the White House though…he might have tried to get that obelisk renamed.
>Eric Bergerud, 531 Kains Ave, Albany CA 94706, 510-525-0930