terry allen -- one of the reasons terry allen was loved throughout the big red one is that the soldiers figured out quickly he cared more about him than superiors. he had a relationship with george patton where he did not suck up to patton. you mentioned night. while we're talking terry allen, it's the perfect time to visit that. terry allen is a pioneer in the u.s. armed forces in his advocacy of night attacks. the u.s. army in world war ii and their forward through the vietnam era has a let's fight the 9:00 to 5:00 war and hunker down in bunkers and shoot at everything that moves. it was let's fight in the day and not at night because we can't see at night. allen's division was quite different. absolutely. he was just too competent a commander to sit out the rest of the war. he got the 104th which is called the timber wwolves. they helped liberate a concentration/labor camp called in order how issen at the end of the war. remarkable unit really. anything else? okay. i'm told this is the last question. go ahead. lots riding on this. >> it's the sorrow of my life because i'm going to be

he could not be more different than terry allen. allen was not worried about whether your uniform was rumpled as long as you are a good combat soldier. the soldiers initially hated the new replacement. we are combat soldiers, why do we have to deal with this nonsense? that is rear echelon, basic training stuff. the rumor is running around that he is just this desk jockey who did not know any better. what they did not know was his background. huebner was 55 years old in 1944, had joined the army as a private soldier in time for world war i, worked his way through the nco ranks, got a commission, was a commander in world war i, ends as a lieutenant colonel and is decorated with a distinguished service cross. what division did he serve in? first division. you guessed it. but hardly anybody knew that. they just knew this guy is here to change our lives and in a bad way. but what was indisputable as they started to watch and once they got to england, in the run-up to prepare for the invasion, what was indisputable was he definitely knew h

allen. >> good afternoon, commissioners. my name is terrytwick, and i am the chairman of the lgbt historical committee in san francisco. we were founded on -- in our founder, willie walker's living room in the castro. we're currently located over in the midmarket area in a basement. we don't have much light, much windows, but they let me out occasionally to speak at a commission hearing. but we have a location in the castro which is visited by thousands of people around the world every month. i'm also a member of the citywide lgbtq cultural heritage strategy, and one of the cochairs of that. the historical society was a sponsor of the lgbtq historic context statement that you raised earlier. so we are a resource of material on the history of the castro. but really, what i wanted to speak about today was as a resident of the castro for many years, and you know, i'm a barrier native, and i moved to san francisco proper in 1981, which was the year that the -- willie began in june of that year. and since then -- so i grew up in the castro, i gre