Little Big Horne day

[Ian Gentles]

This is 131st aniversarry of battle at Little Big Horn.

[Ryan Scott]

This is 131st aniversarry of battle at Little Big Horn.

"Battle" is such a deceptive term.

[John Kennedy]

Visited there a few years ago. Planning on stopping there when I swing up that way this summer. On my first visit, after looking at the maps and driving around the battlefield for several hours and reading the markers, I came to the conclusion it was a case of 'Custer chasing the Indians until they caught him'.

Custer was a monumental egomaniac - he was willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice to appease the egomania. Unfortunately a number of people on both sides had to go along for the ride.

[Ian Gentles]

Weird a Brit raises this memorial lol

[Ian Gentles]

Visited there a few years ago. Planning on stopping there when I swing up that way this summer. On my first visit, after looking at the maps and driving around the battlefield for several hours and reading the markers, I came to the conclusion it was a case of 'Custer chasing the Indians until they caught him'.

Custer was a monumental egomaniac - he was willing to pay the ultimate sacrifice to appease the egomania. Unfortunately a number of people on both sides had to go along for the ride.

Ya feel Indians would have left well alone if he had?

[Jim Franklin]

Some of my Native American friends think of Custer as an earlier day Sadaam Hussein because he had massacred many of them. IMO the memorial should be to the Natives who took him out and the soldiers he led to their deaths. All of the places named after him should be renamed something else.

[John Kennedy]

At a trading post just outside the park grounds in Montana a movie was being shown that saw Custer's presence on the frontier as something done by the powers that be in DC in order to remove him from effective contention for the presidency. He had quite a dashing rep as a heroic Union general during the Civil War. While I'm not ordinarily given to conspiracy theories, this one has somewhat of a ring of truth.

[Ryan Scott]

At a trading post just outside the park grounds in Montana a movie was being shown that saw Custer's presence on the frontier as something done by the powers that be in DC in order to remove him from effective contention for the presidency. He had quite a dashing rep as a heroic Union general during the Civil War.

They also wanted he natives dispersed or removed and they knew Custer was about as ruthless as they come. I'm not one to believe in cosmic justice in matters like this, but it certainly seems like he reaped what he sowed.