George Custer: An American embarrassment: "
'More than anything else, he wanted to be remembered.' That's how Nathaniel ('Mayflower') Philbrick sizes up George Armstrong Custer toward the end of 'The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull and the Battle of the Little Bighorn,' and no one will dispute that America's ultimate glory hound got his wish. Too bad the victorious Lakota and Cheyenne weren't feeling respectful after wiping out his command in what's now Montana on June 25, 1876. They not only punctured the dead Custer's eardrums because he 'wouldn't listen,' but -- in a detail long suppressed by decorum -- jammed an arrow up the corpse's penis.
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