Creighton Abrams Quotes
They've got us surrounded again, the poor bastards.
Sorley, Lewis. Thunderbolt: General Creighton Abrams and the Army of His Times. Simon & Schuster, 1992.
The nation was bitterly split over the issue of slavery and fighting a brutal civil war. The stress on the Government leaders was immense.
The ambassador was spending the day with President Theodore Roosevelt. They played two sets of tennis, jogged around the White House lawn, and then did some gymnastics with the large medicine ball. The President had asked him what he would like to do next:
The Senator was an Army sergeant fighting in Europe during WWII. He and a unit of Japanese American had volunteered to fight for America at the same time as many other Japanese Americans – American Citizens -- on the West Coast were interned in camps and denied the very rights we were fighting to preserve. The internment was one of the most regrettable mistakes in American history.
The coalescing of Public Opinion against slavery in the North was punctuated by the election of Abraham Lincoln in the eyes of the supporters of slavery left them with no where to turn within the Union. Secession followed.
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Creighton Williams Abrams Jr. was a United States Army general who commanded military operations in the Vietnam War from 1968 to 1972, which saw United States troop strength in South Vietnam reduced from a peak of 543,000 to 49,000. He was then Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1972 until his death in 1974.
