Troops have always given war trophy's to the president ???!!!

[moof]

Howard Fineman on NBC just now said about "The Gun"

" This is the kind of war trophy that troops have always given to the president "

Never heard of this before,
what war trophys did the Troops ever present to any past president.

It didn't come up right away on google.

Another thing, that has got to be one of the most expensive
" war trophys " in history and it better still be there after
the the war criminals have vacated the premises.

[BJ]

1. I just heard that too.

I can't think of any instance in American history when a President was given a "war trophy" by the troops?

[Kinkistyle]

2. Just the IDEA of war trophies is barbaric.

Nevermind the president collecting them. Let alone a chicken-hawk, know-nothing, punk like Bush.

[NoPasaran]

3. One symbolic one I can recall

To his Excellency President Lincoln,
Washington, D.C.

I beg to present you, as a Christmas gift, the city of Savannah, with 150 heavy guns and plenty of ammunition, also about 25,000 bales of cotton.

W. T. Sherman
Major General

[Bunny]

4. Did Truman get Hitler's pencil box? n/t

[rpannier]

5. Never heard of ANY president getting war trophies (N/T)

[jeff30997]

6. I heard that...

Reagan got the flu from Gorbachev(Hey,Ronnie won the cold war all by himself!).:silly: But seriously that gun thing is pathetic.All that blood so junior can have his toy?

[HawkerHurricane]

7. While I can't say for sure...

I am pretty sure that it has been done in the past. It wouldn't surprise me if a soldier, or group of them, gave a visiting President a item 'recovered from the battlefield'.

Of course, Bush the Lesser's the first one to make it into a photo op.

[jpgray]

8. We've also always been at war with EastAsia, at this time of writing (nt)

[snippy]

9. This story reminds me of this 2002 parody of Bush (I think it is a parody)

Bush works out war strategy in backyard sandbox

Crawford, Texas -- Making good on his promise to use August's untimely 25-day retreat as a "working vacation," President Bush began masterminding tactical maneuvers for offensive strikes on Iraq in the backyard sandbox of his Texas ranch Sunday afternoon.

Outfitted in full military fatigues, the 56-year-old U.S. military Commander In Chief utilized his vivid imagination while manipulating an array of army toys to experiment with different combat strategies and attack drills.

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. . .

"He's so cute," added Laura Bush. "And such a workaholic. This morning when I caught him rooting through the Presidential toy trunk I said, 'Honey, you are not going out there again today. It's Sunday for Pete's sake, and this is supposed to be your vacation.' I guess the little guy just can't help himself."

Sources confirmed that the President conducted further amphibious warfare simulations during his 45-minute bath late Sunday evening before retiring to his study to skim Sun Tza's The Art of War and reread a compilation book of Beetle Bailey comic strips.

http://www.recoilmag.com/news/bush_works_out_war_strategy_0902.html