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Smedley D. Butler Poster / Broadside


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I bought an old briefcase filled with papers and photos and it turned out to be the personal briefcase of Francis Case a senator from the South Dakota. Its filled with cool things including two of these old posters. I am trying to determine what date this might come from?

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After looking closer at Francis Case it looks like he was in the USMC in WWI. He had a bunch of photos that seem newer than WWI to me . I will post them in this thread instead of a new one. He had alot of photos of planes and parachuters

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That poster would look killer in our Marine Recruiting office in Rapid City!

I think the brass might frown on that...the Corps tends to selectively forget Butler's post-war history.

 

That said, they are neat, and would look neat next to that check of yours

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I dount the brass of today would even know what the hell the poster was about

Oh yeah, I am sure the corps forgot about an outspoken General of theirs who was a two time MoH recipient. :)

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They didnt forget of his Marine Corps exploits, just the post service reputation of the man. i am always awestruck about the lack of knowledge of our history by our current service members.

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Officially, we have a habit of whitewashing out history

 

Notice we don't say much about the Civil War in those bootcamp history classes

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