MajGenl.Meade wrote:Well, that was worth saying (not). It is cowardly to attack a child with a knife, axe or gun - even if you are prepared to be shot for the crime.
It is hard to be objective when you are talking about children, but I will try. It takes no courage to kill a child or anyone helpless, but does that make the killer a coward?. Were the Comanche cowards? They killed numerous children. They even brought some captive children back for their young children to torture.
“Comanche Indians butchered babies, roasted enemies alive and would ride 1,000 miles to wipe out one family”
“The 16-year-old girl’s once-beautiful face was grotesque.
She had been disfigured beyond all recognition in the 18 months she had been held captive by the Comanche Indians.
Now, she was being offered back to the Texan authorities by Indian chiefs as part of a peace negotiation.
To gasps of horror from the watching crowds, the Indians presented her at the Council House in the ranching town of San Antonio in 1840, the year Queen Victoria married Prince Albert.
‘Her head, arms and face were full of bruises and sores,’ wrote one witness, Mary Maverick. ‘And her nose was actually burnt off to the bone. Both nostrils were wide open and denuded of flesh.’
Once handed over, Matilda Lockhart broke down as she described the horrors she had endured — the rape, the relentless sexual humiliation and the way Comanche women had tortured her with fire. It wasn’t just her nose, her thin body was hideously scarred all over with burns.”
It is a coward who will not speak his mind for fear of criticism even when he has nothing to lose.
Soon, I’ll post my farewell message. The end is starting to get close. There are many misconceptions about me, and before I go, to live with my ancestors on the steppes, I want to set the record straight.
