Posts from BatjacAuburn in thread „Chesty: A Tribute to a Legend (1976) (Documentary)“

Quote from ethanedwards

Thank you for pointing that out,
but it was Duke who said that not me,
perhaps if Duke were alive you could take that up with him.
In the meantime, if you are a neophyte, read things as quoted,
and stick around, you might learn something
.....next point!!

Didn't say you said it. What I said was, in many of your other reviews (and in most of the posts by the maybe a dozen active members here)you point out innacuracies, you did not seem to in this one where there are obvious ones to me. Snarky could be a reason for a dozen members by the way.

In your other reviews you often list historical innaccuracies or production issues so I thought I'd give you one here. When Duke is discussing VMI early on, he metions Stonewall, Jackson, Robert E. Lee, George Marshall, and George Patton as getting their start at VWI. Lee was never directly associated with VMI and was a West Point graduate. Stonewall Jackson was also a West Point graduate thou he was at VMI as a major when Virginia joined the Confederacy having already served many years in other postings. The George S Patton everyone knows actually went to VMI for one year but then went to West Point. His grandfather, also George S Patton and a Confederate Colonel killed during the the war was a VMI grad. Marshall was indeed a graduate of VMI and was the first non-West Point graduate four star in the Army.

Sorry, about this, but I am such a neophyte at the school of John Wayne I have to show off something that I do know.