Gen.Pershing and Muslims.

[Tom]

GENEREAL BLACK JACK PERSHING was born September 13th, 1860 near Laclede, MS. He died July 15th, 1948 in Washington D.C. Highlights of his life include:

1891 PROFESSOR OF MILITARY SCIENCE AND TACTICS UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA

1898 SERVES IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR

1901 AWARDED RANK OF CAPTAIN

1906 PROMOTED TO RANK OF BRIGADIER GENERAL

1909 MILITARY GOVERNOR OF MORO PROVINCE, PHILIPPINES

1916 PROMOTED TO MAJOR GENERAL

1919 PROMOTED TO GENERAL OF THE ARMIES

1921 APPOINTED CHIEF OF STAFF

1924 RETIRES FROM ACTIVE DUTY EDUCATION WEST POINT

Just before World War I, there were a number of terrorist attacks on the United States forces in the Philippines by MUSLIM EXTREMISTS. So General Pershing captured 50 Terrorists and had them tied to posts for execution. He then had his men bring in two pigs and slaughter them in front of the now horrified terrorists. Muslims detest pork because they believe pigs are filthy animals. Some of them simply refuse to eat it, while others won't even touch pigs at all, nor any of their by-products. To them, eating or touching a pig, its meat, its blood, etc., is to be instantly barred from paradise (and those virgins) and doomed to hell. The soldiers then soaked their bullets in the pigs blood, and proceeded to execute 49 of the terrorists by firing squad. The soldiers then dug a big hole, dumped in the terrorist's bodies and covered them in pig blood, entrails, etc. They let the 50th man go. And for the next 42-years, there was not a single MUSLIM EXTREMIST attack anywhere in the world. Maybe it is time for this segment of history to repeat itself, maybe in Iraq. The question is, where do we find another BLACK JACK PERSHING??

Any truth to that story?

 

[RogueWarrior1957]

Tom,

I have heard that story all my life...told as a true story. I just got through checking it out on www.hoaxbusters.com, and snopes. I found nothing there to dispute the story. In my spare time over the next few days, I will try to access some history links I have and see what else I can dig up.

-RW-

 

[RogueWarrior1957]

Well...that was a quick search. I found many sites on the web reciting the same story above, and another that was similar but worded a bit differently. This site Urban Legends Library (click) claims that it is false. They also claim that the story started in 2001. I heard a version of it when I was a kid...so the legend has been around for a while. Remember also, General Pershing was sent down into Mexico to round up the Pancho Villa gang. Villa's last raid was on a small town in the southern part of my state called Columbus. I don't remember all the details of the Pancho Villa campaign other than Pancho Villa was finally killed and decapitated. Though his body was buried, his head was never recovered. It was listed in a book a few years ago titled "Lost Treasures of the West" because supposedly there was still a big bounty offered on the outlaw's missing head. Gruesome, huh?

 

[2fastnaz]

Rouge, I too have heard that story as long as I can recall. Don't know if it's true but I like it anyway.