We’re the battling Bastards of Bataan No mama, no papa, no Uncle Sam No aunts, no uncles, no nephews, no nieces No pills, no planes, no artillery pieces. … And nobody gives a damn. Perhaps nobody did give a damn, at least when it came to the cavalry. “Out of a clear sky,” one of Wainwright’s fellow old-time cavalry officers recalled, “the ax fell.” On the last day of February, as part of George Marshall’s reorganization of the army, Franklin Roosevelt signed an executive order abolishing the office of chief of cavalry. It was a cruel coincidence that the announcement came almost to the day the
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