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Camp Blessing, named for Jay Blessing, a U.S. Ranger sergeant killed in November, is a test of the "ink-spot theory of counterinsurgency," says Lieut. Colonel Custer (no first names allowed), the special-forces commander for eastern and southeastern Afghanistan. The idea is that as the U.S. brings stability to places like Nangalam, cooperation from locals will rapidly spread like ink through blotting paper. Since arriving three months ago, the men of ODA 936 have launched numerous reconstruction projects, ranging from new footbridges to schools and clinics. Villages that are neutral or friendly benefit from aid. Those that haven...
...keep a murder quiet, the corpse is fed--despite the cook's silent disgust--to Wu's pigs. (Which, yes, the townsfolk eat.) Even more essential are the Indians or, as they are dehumanizingly and incessantly called, "the godless heathen c__ksucker Sioux." Although it's two weeks after Custer's massacre at Little Bighorn, they don't appear, except as a constantly invoked and useful menace. Swearengen's road agents even scalp their victims to make it look like an Indian attack. You can't miss the post-9/11 point about the line between danger and exploitation...
...having signed a 3-year, $4.5 million contract extension after his Super Bowl heroics two years ago. Foxboro sits a long way from his rustic birthplace, Yanktown, S.D., where another distant relative, great-great grandfather Felix Vinatieri, also put ice water in Adam?s blood. Felix served as George Custer?s band leader, but the 5-foot-2 Italian immigrant missed out on Little Big Horn after Custer, sensing danger, left Vinatieri and his 16-member brass band on a Powder River supply boat before succumbing to Crazy Horse. ?That was very fortunate for me and my family,? Vinatieri says...
Deadwood was the epicenter of a gold rush in what is now South Dakota. Just one small problem: the land had previously been "given" to the Indians. "Custer was sent in to strong-arm the Indians, and we all know how that turned out," says Milch. The story begins two weeks after Custer's last stand at Little Bighorn and features fictional characters like a marshal turned merchant played by Timothy Olyphant (Gone in Sixty Seconds) as well as historical figures like "Wild Bill" Hickok (Keith Carradine...
...Standing Rock, the combative past survives in surnames. On radio station KLND--that's Lakota, Nakota, Dakota--the news is from Mike Kills Pretty Enemy, the music from Virgil Taken Alive. Last month tribe members gathered near the grave site of Sitting Bull, General George Custer's conqueror, to pray at the graves of long-ago chiefs--Thunderhawk, Rain-in-the-Face, Running Antelope. A package event for tourists? Hardly. The Indians got there on horseback and camped in the cold. In fact, they were not dressed for camcorders. They wore jeans, permanent press and wrap-around shades. When they...