Article here:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna217652
I don’t know why this hit me. I just saddens me that we have fewer opportunities for the public to see horses.
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reminds me of “In Pursuit of Honor,” a movie of when in 1935 Gen. Douglas MacArthur deemed in order save money it was best to kill off the cavalry horses
The U.S. Army was modernizing phasing out the horse cavalry .
But old traditions died hard, especially for five soldiers stationed in Arizona who defied a direct order by MacArthur to take hundreds of horses to Mexico and destroy them. The men stole the horses and drove them from Sonora, Mexico, to safety in Canada.
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It is my understanding that the movie, “In Pursuit of Honor” is not factual.
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Clark, who penned the 1978 Western “Comes a Horseman,” learned about the incident as a 7-year-old living with his grandparents on their Montana farm. “I heard this story from three of the actual participants,” he says. “They worked for my grandfather. They had sneaked back in the United States and worked as cowboys. This was about 13 years after the actual event.”
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They’re eliminating the horses in these programs to save $2 million a year when they just voted in a new budget of something like $50 billion a year for ICE? An increase from the current ICE budget of maybe $2 billion a year?
I don’t remember if those are the exact numbers, but it’s something similar.
The $2 million a year for the military horses would be the equivalent of the change in the couch from the ICE budget. Either the old one or especially the new one.
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a quick google pulls up:
Is the movie In Pursuit of Honor a true story?
AI Overview
No, “In Pursuit of Honor” is not a true story, although it is presented as such in the movie. While the movie depicts the U.S. Army eliminating its horse cavalry units and destroying the horses in 1934, historical records show that this never happened. The film was inspired by stories told to the screenwriter by cowboys working on his father’s ranch in the 1940s.
Here’s why it’s not a true story:
- No Record of Slaughter:
Research at the U.S. Army Center of Military History and the MacArthur Memorial revealed no evidence of a horse slaughter as depicted in the film.
- Horse Cavalry Persisted:
The US Army and National Guard units retained horse cavalry units into the 1940s, and some even saw combat during World War II.
- Horses Were Sold:
When the Army’s Remount Service ended, its horses were transferred to the Department of Agriculture and sold at auction.
- Historical Inaccuracies:
The movie includes other inaccuracies, such as the portrayal of the Bonus March and the depiction of Colonel Hardesty’s actions, which go against the Army’s code of conduct and the relationship between soldiers and their horses, according to True West Magazine.
also:
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Army still breeding horses until after WWII.
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