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Source:             Special Sesquicentennial Supplement II Ledger- Enquirer
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                      Infantryman Guards Republic

                        By Richard Grube 
                        Guest Columnist

  The American Infantryman has guardedthe Republic for over two centuries. At 
Stoney' Point he made  a bayonet charge with unshotted muskets and captured a 
key strongpoint. He left a bloody trail in the snow to Valley Forge, and rose 
again to meet the enemy at Brandywine, Cullifer Court House, Kings Mountain, 
and finally at Yorktown. In 1812, he bowed at Bruinsburg and watched his 
capitol burn at the hands of an English General. He sacrificed himself at 
Lundy's Lane and Fort Detroit in an unsuccessful effort to hold Canada hostage 
to end a naval year. At New Orleans he came of age and turned back an invading 
army, and made the reputation of a future president.
  The American Infantry came ashore at Vera Cruz in longboats, forced the 
moutain pass at Cero Gordo, and forged the gateway to Mexico City With cold 
steel at Chapultapec. In Cuba with Shafter and Roosevelt, the Infantry stormed 
Blockhouse and San Juan Hills to take Santiago and force the Spanish fleet onto 
the guns of the American battle squadron.
  The American Infantryman marched through Paris rawboned and sunburned and 
proclaimed, "Lafayette, we are here!" Giving hope to his allies, he spent 
himself in the trenches of Cantigney, St. Michel, the Argonne, and in Pickardy. 
He went down under the flashing muzzel of the Spandaus, but he did not break. 
Twenty years later his sons once again marched through Paris to give hope to a 
shattered nation. But, this time he had to fight to get there. Behind him lay 
El Guettar, Kasserine, Omaha and Utah beaches, Cherbourg, and the Faifase 
Pocket. Ahead lay Auchen, the St. Vith "Goose Egg," Bastogne, the Ruhr, the 
Rhine, Son, and the bridge at Grave. Finally the "thousand-year reich" was 
dead, while on the other side of the world, new names were being added to his 
battle honors: Guadalcanal, the Solomans, Saipan, Burma, Luzon, Leyte, Manila, 
Corregidor, and Okinawa.
  The American Infantryman soon fought a different war, and its names tell of 
the sacrifice: Pusan, Inchon, Chosen Reservor, Old Baldy, Bloody Nose Ridge, 
Heartbreak Ridge, Pork Chop Hill. Yet again, he was called to arms, and again 
he met the enemy. Names like Dak To, the Parrot's Beak, War Zone D, the Iron 
Triangle are now enrolled on his battle honors.
  Steadfastness, devotion to duty, a stubborness,and unique independence 
characterized the American Infantryman. He has produced soldiers and men to 
match the land from which he sprung: Washington, Green, Winfield 
Scott, "Stonewall" Jackson, Lee, Hancock, Sherman, Grant, "Black Jack" 
Pershing, Eisenhower, Bradley, Stillwell, MacArthur. For two centuries the 
American Infantryman has written a story of loyalty, sacrifice, and devotion 
second to none: "Brave rifles. You have been baptized in fire and blood and 
have come out steel!"  


Special Sesquicentennial Supplement II
Ledger- Enquirer, Sunday, April 23, 1978.S-20
 Scanned by Christine G. Thacker, 4/22/2007.

   In the picture posted are Museum curator Dick Grube, Gen. Omar Bradley, The 
late Winthrop Rockefeller, Gen. Orwin Talbott, T.A. Lewis.

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