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lapfog_1

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3. "Nothing is worth changing a Custer decision"

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2024, 08:39 AM

Jun 2024

something to that effect were uttered by Custer when he was informed by scouts of the large mass of Lakota and other tribes waiting for him near Little Bighorn.

We would use that phrase in meetings at NASA when new information would arrive that would indicate that we would change course or reconsider a critical decision. Often upper management would reject such new information.

I honestly don't know if Custer ever uttered the quote... but he certainly had the ego to be that pigheaded.

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On this day, June 25, 1876, George Armstrong Custer died at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 OP

Demonstrates the lethality of testosterone and a tiny brain. And the dangers of believing one's own press. marble falls Jun 2024 #1

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"Nothing is worth changing a Custer decision" lapfog_1 Jun 2024 #3

I read a very good book sarisataka Jun 2024 #4

Battle of the Little Bighorn--aka when KARMA Came to CUSTER... hlthe2b Jun 2024 #5

Proof that highly trained native horsemen with bows and arrows DBoon Jun 2024 #6