The new U.S. Army recruiting commercial, a paean to West Point, ROTC and the OCS, is stirring. But it skips from Washington to Teddy R. and onward, missing Grant, Sherman. The freeing of the slaves, guys! No big deal?
I suppose there’s just too many Southerners in the Army these days to want to risk bringing up bad memories of civil wars, etc. Hardly their fault. Too many wimps on both coasts won’t join.
As a onetime Army recruiter, I know the Army was never much good at making commercials. But (except for losing those good Union boys, the blacks as well as the whites) this one is pretty fair. At least they haven’t dumped the good Army Strong music.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Wimps won’t join anyhow. I guess.
Not unless they’re pushed. I’m coming around to the idea of conscription for all.
Obviously the US Army wants to avoid any controversory over “the Late Unpleasantness” as the Civil War was often euphemistically referred to in the generation or so afterwards.
As an Ohioan, I do take offense at my fellow Ohioans Grant & Sherman, not to mention Sheridan being left out. And whatever happened to Andrew Jackson & his troops beating the British regulars at New Orleans in 1815?!