![]() ![]() ![]() He would go on to win the Medal of Honor twice, as well as the Marine Corps Brevet Medal (of which only 23 were given out, though admittedly retroactively) and received a total of 16 medals, five of which were for heroism. The rest of his life was pretty much dedicated to kicking ass and taking names in the name of America (and, like, Manifest Destiny, this was not exactly a period of our military history that made us look very good in retrospect). He dropped out of High School (though still received a diploma) 38 days before his 17 th birthday due to the start of the Spanish-American War, at which point he lied about his age in order to join the Marine Corps as a Marine second lieutenant. He went to The Haverford School, a selective prep school stocked with the upper-class of Philadelphia, where he was the captain of the baseball team and quarterback of his football team. He came from a fairly successful family-his father was a judge and lawyer before serving as a Congressman for 31 years, including a stint as the chair of the House Naval Affairs Committee, and his mother’s father was a Republican Congressman from 1887-1891. Smedley Butler was born on July 30 th, 1881, in West Chester Pennsylvania, the oldest of three sons to Quaker parents. So allow us to spend three thousand words or so gushing about Smedley Butler, The Fighting Quaker. Well, it sort of was his job, he was a marine, but you get the picture. history, and served 34 years where he managed to collect medals, tropical diseases, and tactics for tricking the enemy like it was his job. We then came to realize that Smedley Butler, a badass with a kind of funny first name, isn’t really well known to the casual American-hell, we had only sort of stumbled across his career by accident.Īnd that’s some bullshit, because Smedley Butler died as the most highly decorated Marine in U.S. Marine named Smedley Butler, who straight up tried to turn down his first Medal of Honor (yes, he was later awarded a second one) because he didn’t think he deserved it. In that discussion, we briefly mentioned a U.S. We recently wrote an article that focused on the Medal of Honor-mainly, how the military’s highest honor, now given only to acts of almost impossible levels of valor, was sort of tossed around pretty willy-nilly in the years after the Civil War and before World War I. ~Smedley Butler Playing a Game of Bullshit ![]()
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