"SON OF THE MORNING STAR" is a great book, a study of George Armstrong Custer and the Battle of the Little Big Horn  by a tremendous writer, Evan Connell; who wrote the great American novels, MR. BRIDGE and MRS. BRIDGE. George Armstrong Custer   THE BATTLE OF LITTLE BIG HORN( CUSTER'S LAST STAND), THE END OF THE SON OF THE MORNING STAR SON OF THE MORNING STAR,  is magnificent in its writing, its fairness to Custer and its depiction of the  battle of the Little Big Horn. The depiction is brutal, one of the fascinating tidbits presented to the reader is this,  many of the men of the 7th, Custer's Regiment, surrounded by legions of Sioux and Cheyenne dog soldiers,  KILLED THEMSELVES. When the relief column finally came up to the Rosebud and upon the battle field; they found many of the men of the 7th  had saved the last bullet for themselves and rather than be taken alive, had placed their guns in their mouths and pulled  the triggers. Such was frontier warfare. Ther

America is living in a strange, weird, and delusional    time; unparalleled in its social inability to deal with History or the Future. How do we know this? Look at how the Elite is preparing its children for   this  century of fraught, and perhaps existential times; look at the roster of Commencement Speakers at Elite Universities. The 2023 Harvard Commencement Speaker was Tom Hanks; what can Tom Hanks tell the crop of new Elitists? That the best way to jump start your career is by wearing drag? Dartmouth had award winning film makers; Duke had the NBA commissioner. In an age in which America cannot find enough volunteers to fill the ranks of its defenders; this Blogger did not find one war hero, or veteran among the Commencement speakers at major colleges or universities. Nor a student of the Greek historian, Polybius. Readers, trust this Blogger, in this age, America needs to discuss Polybius. Polybius was a great friend of the grandson of Scorpio Africanus; the Roman military geniu