Well I'll be darned

31 May 2019, 22:32

Bill/Oregon

Well I'll be darned

Ran into this snippet on Wikipedia while looking up John Pedersen, the famous Remington gun designer:

At the start of the Korean War, his son Eric Pedersen joined the United States Marine Corps and served as a lieutenant in combat in Korea. He is memorialized in the book Reckless: Pride of the Marines. Lt. Pedersen led a recoilless rifle platoon and at his own expense purchased a racehorse for use as an ammunition carrier. The horse became famous in the 1st Marine Division.[5] Reckless became the first horse to participate in a Marine amphibious landing, was promoted through the ranks from private to corporal to sergeant, and at the war's end was shipped to Camp Pendleton, California, where she lived out her retirement as a beloved mascot.

01 June 2019, 17:33

bwana cecil

Well deserved life of leisure.

01 June 2019, 18:55

BuffHunter63

As I recall there is a statue of Reckless somewhere. Kentucky Horse Park maybe?

BH63

04 June 2019, 09:11

Grizzly Adams

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Originally posted by BuffHunter63:
As I recall there is a statue of Reckless somewhere. Kentucky Horse Park maybe?

BH63

Book and a movie as well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergeant_Reckless

Grizz

Indeed, no human being has yet lived under conditions which, considering the prevailing climates of the past, can be regarded as normal. John E Pfeiffer, The Emergence of Man

Those who can't skin, can hold a leg. Abraham Lincoln

Only one war at a time. Abe Again.