it was a cavalry horse.en by the cavalry off what was once called the great horse desert of texas. there were so many horses down there that the -- there was an area on the map known only as the great horse desert, and if you told somebody, hey, i'm going to the great horse desert, they would know exactly where you meant. that's all you had to say. many, many wild horses were taken from that area, and pressed into service by the cavalry. comanche was taken probably about 1868, and immediately pressed into cavalry service for the indian wars like a lot of other wild horses that entered the cavalry, he was given a number, not a name. and he was wounded in about seven or eight battles before he found himself on the field at the little big horn. he was -- had acquired something of a reputation by then, because he had survived so many of these treacherous engagements. in one of them, he had been hit in the flanks with an arrowhead and his handlers went to remove the shaft and he exhibited such great stoic courage

served in support of operation iraqi freedom with the united states army's sixth squadron, ninth cavalry rentalment, third brigade combat team out of fort hood, texas. on memorial day, may 28, 2007, first lieutenant west and four fellow members of his unit were killed in iraq when their bradley fighting vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device. the soldiers had been out on a rescue mission in support of comrades who had been downed in a helicopter. after graduating in 2001 from huddle high school in texas, first lieutenant west attended blin college and subsequently received a degree in business management from steven f. austin state university in 2005. in pursuit of his lifelong dream to serve in the united states military, first lieutenant west joined the rotc program at steven f. austin as a junior and eventually rose to sergeant and the taction national guard out of texas. included among kyle's national guard duties were assistanting in the columbia shuttle recovery efforts in 2003, as well as serving in louisiana following hurricane katrina. kyle was commissioned in the

chairman, you have successfully chased off the cavalry, so, mr. chairman, amendment number 3. the kennedy bill does not explicitly require the school-based health senators to follow state laws requiring notification of the reporting of child abuse, child molestation, sexual abuse, rape or incest. this amendment clearly states that the school-based health clinics shall follow any such state law and that any provider of services found to be in violation of such state law shall not be eligible to receive additional funding under this section. now some might say why is this even needed? why is it necessary? children are one of the most vulnerable populations in school-based health clinics. will be in a unique position to help protect these young patients from inappropriate contact. it's essential that school-based health clinics entrusted to provide care to our nation's children and adolescents adhere to the state laws that have been put in place to protect them. taxpayer dollars should not support programs that did not comply with state law that protect our nation's children and

he took part in the last british cavalry charge. it was a glorious triumph, fighting arabs and muslims. the british had a grievance against him because the ruler of khartoum had killed the british hero. kitchener went down there to avenge that, and they want one massive victory. that had almost no casualties. churchill took part in that. in recounting this battle, which he was in the course of launching a political career -- he had every reason on earth to celebrate this overwhelming victory. he writes of it as a tragedy. when the dervishes come over the hill and the british -- there is a beautiful paragraph in a chapter of his book. it is a commentary on what war has become. it says, little did they know the impending tragedy. then he describes metal whistling into flesh and the screams of the dying on one side, and back on the british side, the manufacturing process. so if war becomes dangerous, and if it is made dangerous by technological advancements, if it is made dangerous by the increased degree of organization possible in mo

in that way, the fact that he had been a triumphanalist, a good for the cavalry attitude. as president and in his writings he takes on a native american view of nature. as former president egos to live with the hopi indians and takes part in rattlesnake candling. he is surroundined in a hut with rattlesnakes while people are handling them. he wrote an essay on it. he would ride on a horse with the comanche chief in oklahoma. near fort sill. it's gorgeous. it's called wichita mountains. here's wichita, a beautiful mountain. it is in the plains. the plains indians feel the 60 million buffalo disappeared and went down right there and left. roosevelt put buffalo in railcar back to oklahoma as a gift to the comanche to get the planes depopulated with buffalo. is romanticism is this, and it's something i want to make clear, he's a child of the post civil war era. he saw the north fight this out. 600,000 or more dead. he believed the north misted up, the american dream got messed up in the north because of hyper industrialization. philadelphia had sewage dumped into rivers. it sm

troops will be back in a cavel cavalry role versus leading attacks or operations? >> well, it depends on where you are. in the cities i think this is going to be a coordinate, train, advise, assist role. outside of that. and we can provide you with a copy of this letter that that the general provided to his troops, that there will be layers often defense outside the city that we will provide that we have been by with and through the iraqi forces, but there will still be combat operations that we undertake outside the iraqi cities and towns with iraqi security forces. >> during the search there was a very aggressive counterterrorism operation the u.s. executed against al qaeda targets infusing intelligence and going after them quickly. it was written about in his book and general petraeus talked about it. will that stand structure where we will have black prayings? >> obviously we don't talk about such operations here, but i will say this. obviously with this milestone date approaching of june 30, it's significant on many levels but it does not mean, however, an end

that terrible con flagration, one of the last to -- well, the last encounter between the lacota and cavalry, the one that kind of finished them off, he watched his longtime handler go down there and when he returned to the fort, he went into a deep depression and never came out of it, and died shortly after that. and you know the army was something of a bureaucracy even then, and there was a lot of argument over who should pick up the taxidermy tabbed and it was never determined and over the years, comanche -- i think i got a little bit ahead of myself. they had him stuffed and mounted and there was an argument over who would pick up the taxidermy tab and people began to shuttle him back and forth to various spectacles and fans would drive from, you know, miles and -- to pluck hair from his mane and tail and he was almost kind of a religious figure. finally, he ended up back at the university of kansas natural history museum, where he was initially stuffed and mounted. and today he resides in a glass case in his own room on the fourth floor of the museum. next to the panorama of north ameri

only do they want to be part of the army, butz this man seen here decided he wanted to form a jewish cavalry made up completely of jews. this was the first wholly jewish military unit since biblical times. and kosciuszko was very pleased with this and he wrote in his newspaper, the government gazette, which was the propaganda organization and the nothing will help us than the fact we set aside the different religions and traditions of those who support our uprising and that that theirj( own free will they offered to lay down their lives. kosciuszko's article went on to explain how jews had suffered over the centuries but now they were willing to die for poland. and when the fighting started, even the ambassadors from austria and sweden started writing to their king saying this is unusual because even the jews are taking up arms. and a couple of weeks later, there was an appeal in the government gazette to the jews saying listen, children, of the tribes of israel, yee who have in their@yq implanted the image of god almighty all that are willing to help in the struggle for the father land, we

as a climax in the movie, and robert mitchum says, "let's go on up that hill," and it's like the cavalry to the rescue. guys from all over the beach start yelling like banshees and start moving up that draw. it's a great movie scene, but nothing remotely like that ever happened in fact. what happened in fact was, those ravines were much too well-defended to get up. the tanks that the infantry were told were going to be coming in with them, beside them -- these swimming tanks, these shermans that had the inflatable rubber skirts around them, 32 of the 35 of them sank. there was no way to get up the ravines, and the true story of what happened at omaha was much more inspiring than the way daryl zanuck presented it. the true story is, junior officers and noncoms who had been college students two years before and had rotc commissions pinned down at that sea wall and couldn't retreat, couldn't go back -- it was just chaos back behind them -- couldn't, as the plan called for, go up the draws. they were getting butchered where they were all the sea wall because the germans had it all zeroed in