"Rough Riders" Garryowen
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- čas přidán 10. 10. 2009
- There are only a handful of war movies and/or historical films that portray the men that fight battles realistically, and two of them - both "starring" Theodore Roosevelt ("The Wind and the Lion" and "Rough Riders") - are by John Milius. "Rough Riders" is an unforgettable film on the events of the Spanish-American War and it is too bad that more movies cannot be like this or like films such as "Zulu", "Gettysburg", or "The Longest Day".
In this brilliant outtake that shows the pathos of the departure to the front, the troops of Teddy Roosevelt's (Tom Berenger's) 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry fall in under the orders of Captain Bucky O'Neill (Sam Elliott) for the train ride east across the South to Florida (for embarkation to Cuba), discovering in the process that the wounds of the Civil War (or the War Between the States, to make everybody happy) have started to heal, all to the tune of Garryowen, stunningly sung by Elan Oberon (who happens to be Milius' wife).
If there are DVDs that all Americans (hell, that all people everywhere) should own, this is one of them - don't miss other outstanding portrayals, notably Marshall Teague as Black Jack Pershing and Gary Busey, utterly outstanding in the role of Fighting Joe Wheeler.
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(Thanks to Hervé for all his work in creating this video) - Krátké a kreslené filmy
"Let's go, boys! We've got the damn Yankees on the run again!" former CSA general Wheeler (now a US general) confusing the enemy Spaniards for Yankees:D
@Elian Juelz No one cares. That has nothing to do with the video
Very cool fact
Sort of. He was confusing the Spaniards by making them think the US soldiers were Confederates. A brilliant tactic if I may say so.
@@zoologist1992 sort of. he was delirious from malaria....
FUCK that slave pusher, traitor & brigand, LETs GO U WOLVERINES!!
Let these soldiers be remembered and not forgotten! God bless America!
-From Philippines
Soldiers are used, abused,and treated like shit,it will never change.
@@patricklamshear6662 From "We need you!" To "We don't want you!"
The Vet will always be yanked around in an endless game.
? After they were done in Cuba they came and subjugated the Philippines God Bless Emilio Aquinaldo
Somewhat ironic view
Wasn't long after Yanks kicked the Spanish out the Philippines before they used the Filipino people as target practice
It is often called by some as "The War that United a Country." North, South, West, Richman, Common man, Black, White, Indians, Latinos all fought for a brief time as One.
Leonardo's Truth
Yea, Sam Elliot's character died December 16, 1863, so I guess he had to choose someone else. Trouble is Bucky O'Neil died on Jul 1, 1898. The moral is don't let yourself be by portrayed by Sam Elliot or you're a goner.
And don't allow yellow "journalists" to start a war.
And they fought to free another people from a European tyrant
Role of
yellow press overrated.@@badlaamaurukehu
@@CorsetLebellebut ended up taking over that country themselves, until the people had another revolution
I really like the last part where the little boy said that they are yankees and the confederate officer said no son they are americans.
Anthony Ingersoll A good message. I also played the Colonel of the 71st New York. The role of the old Reb was uncredited.
I liked your role as John Bell Hood in Gettysburg.
"You should have let me go to the right."
Sadly we have forgotten this today....we are ALL AMERICANS but our politicians would rather we be at each other's throats than work together.....and both sides are wrong.....
Patrick Gorman you should have played Wheeler you would have been ideal for the part
Yeah, that was my fav part too
Boy this as an American makes my spirit rise..
Go to the library and get the book " the siege of Baler". And after that, talk to me everything you want about declare a war against a friend contry
Rufus Mccoy who is the friend country?
Spain was not a friend country?
Never said they were
Independence war, Galvez and his granaderos, the sello of florida...
This scene is just simply amazing. I could cry!
This lady has the face and voice of an angel. Love this movie.
+Tom Zaccone That's director John Milius's wife.
+Brian Bois Gilbert
Thanks. She is beautiful.
+Brian Bois Gilberto i
Leonardo's Truth Agree
I've had the honor of shaking hands with a 103 year old WWI veteran who shook the hands of Civil War veterans.
"Garry Owen" became the slogan for the 7th Cavary Regiment of the U.S. Army.
It is almost hard to remember that there was a time in this country when the Army united us, instead of divided us. Old enemies, freed slaves, men and women, Americans all. How far things have come...
God bless his Excellency Theodore Roosevelt, Colonel, US Volunteers. May this country see such camaraderie once more!
Roosevelt was not a Colonel, but a Lieutenant Colonel. His superior, Leonard Wood, was a Colonel (he would later become a General), and, contrary to popular belief, he was the actual leader of the Rough Riders, while "Teddy" Roosevelt was only second in command.
AND GOOD OL' STALWART MOTHER-IN-LAW FOR SOCIALISTIC MILITARISTIC MACHINATION!!!"ELEANOR ROOSEVELT~!!! LOL....NOT REALLY.......I JUST THOUGHT OF THE SNL SKIT...CRCA 1977 ......SOMETHING "WHAT IF IN HISTORY" IE "WHAT IF ELEANOR ROOSEVELT WAS A B-52....SO INANE IT'S FUNNY.....JANE CURTIN'S DEADPAN DELIVERY CLINCHES IT AS A MONUMENTAL MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO THE FINEST MILITARY TRADITIONS AS ESPOUSED BY THE PINKO ROOSEVELTS....."THANK GOD FOR AL WALLACE " SAID TOUGH SOLDIER FRANKLIN D.
@@michaelpalmieri7335 kind of
Roosevelt was a LT. COL but right before the battle of Kettle Hill. Colonel Wood was promoted to General Wood, making Roosevelt a Colonel and the commanding officer of the Rough Riders.
And God curse his cousin, Franklin Roosevelt, a mole Socio-Communist.
When did the military ever divide us? Politicians, media and extreme idealists are the dividers.
Teddy "Rough trader" Roosevelt. Leathered up and ready for the rough stuff.
I always tear up when I see the three old wounded confederate veterans stand at attention and salute teddy Roosevelt as he passes by
I heard there was a former confederate solider that got himself an officers commision, and fought in Cuba. He did well, but in one battle, when the Spaniards were routed, he forgot himself and shouted “At ‘em, boys! We’ve got the damned Yankees on the run at last!”.
@@HooDatDonDar gen wheeler
@@HooDatDonDar general Joe wheeler
It's important to remember that Confederate soldiers were Americans too.
@@michaelfranklin4276 teddy roosevelts own mother came from a slave owning Georgia family. His uncles were rebel blockade runners in the war. Teddy was half southerner.
Was thinking about my dad and my granddad today. Dad was a US Marine, WW2 Pacific, 42-45. Grandad was a Horseman and Trooper, 1st. United States Cavalry, Rough RIders. Theodore Roosevelt, Grandads Colonel, a time when men still had the vision of what's worth fighting for and damn be the politics of the profiteers. You fight for freedom, family, your comrades, country and honor. We've long since lost our way and the ability to see the rights and wrongs of things. God bless you and may God bless America
@Leonardo's Truth Amen and hallelujah to that! Those are my sentiments exactly. To try and turn an act of unnecessary aggression and imperialism (which it was) into some kind of holy crusade (which it wasn't) is beyond hypocritical -- it's an ABOMINATION, not to mention an insult to the memory of all the soldiers, sailors, marines, air force pilots, etc, who died needlessly because of all the phony wars we have fought just so corrupt war profiteers could line their pockets with money soaked in the blood of our troops. These crooks should be run out of this country, along with their equally venal abetters, by which I mean the oil-rich Arab sheiks, the international banking cartels, the professional hatemongers and warmongers, and the servile politicians who obey Wall Street.
Leonardo's Truth so your saying ww1 and ww2 were not needed ?
All this country needs is a president like TR - if you have not read Theodore Rex - do yourself a favor and do so!
whenever I hear the GARRYOWEN, I think of all the guy's I served with. US Army 75-80....Damned Onions
Teddy Roosevelt....we could really use a president like him now
+Storm Bringerr We could use ANY president now.
Storm Bringerr AMEN, brother, AMEN.
The Republicans wouldn't support him...they made him VP to get him out of government.
A jingoistic man with a temper akin to a bear? No i wouldn't want him with a hand on the button. He was a good man for his times, but today there is more leadership them toughness..
Hell yeah!
He'd annihilate ISIS!
goddamn it Sam Elliot is a badass...
Is the armless and legless rebel soldiers who have gathered up the last remnants of their uniforms to salute fellow soldiers that gets me every time. I was a soldier myself, and I went to afghanistan. Fight a regular army, we did not fight men who actually look closely in the eye to give battle, so it's a much worse and horrible experience. But these men recognize that all social anim osity to send off the Young generation style. Truly moving
No matter how this war started it did help bring the country back together. the end scene really brings it home. The Old Reb says to his grandson "No. They're Americans!"
Matthew Arenson Thanks for noticing. A good message. I also played the Colonel of the 71st New York. The role of the old Reb was uncredited.
Matthew Arenson i'm not gonna lie man that brought a tear to my eye lol
Patrick Gorman
Thank you for playing that part.
Numerous enduring scenes. This short one was one of the best (kid looks like my grandson). Think 4 ex-confederate generals served in the Spanish American War - T. Rosser, J. Wheeler, F. Lee & M. Butler with Joe Wheeler represented in this movie. Numerous lower ranks served in the army & navy. No surprise for some career officers. S-A War emulated Euro imperialism but one finds little fault in those served.
Patrick Gorman Whether it’s General Hood or this “Old Confederate” you do us Southerners proud Mr. Gorman. God Bless! Deo Vindice!
A great Irish song.
Scottish isn’t it?
Garry Owen is Irish, adopted by many Irish regiments in European armies in the 1800's and the 7th cavalry in The USA .
I like how it doesn’t just show the confederate veterans but shows Teddy Roosevelt, a New Yorker, saluting back.
That’s what a country healing from civil war looks like. Yankees and Rebs saluting each other. Shaking each others hands, as Americans.
It goes further than that also teddy's mother was southern and his uncles were in the confederate navy
FrontLine Texan 21:The country wasn't really healing in 1898. This was the height of the movement known as The Lost Cause of the Confederacy. The former Confederate States were rewriting history at that time. The statues were popping up all through the South courtesy of the Daughters of the Confederacy. The textbooks used in most Southern schools did not mention a word about slavery as a cause of the war, rather the words, "States Rights" were used and taught to generations of Southern school children. We were a few year removed from the USSC ruling on Separate but Equal (Plessy v. Ferguson). Jim Crow was alive and kicking in 1898. They attempted to portray the Southern cause as a gallant effort, led by cavaliers, against an intrusive Federal Government. McKinley gave Wheeler the opportunity to join the US Army as a symbol of unity however not every former Confederate saw it that way.. A few years later there would be a reunion of West Point graduates and Wheeler attended, wearing his US Army uniform. James Longstreet and Edward Porter Alexander (2 former Confederate Generals) saw him approaching in that uniform and Longstreet said, "Joe, I hope Almighty God takes me before you for I want to be within the gates of hell to hear Jubal Early cuss you in the blue uniform." Doesn't sound like healing to me. I'm not a Northern liberal so please don't take this as some liberal post.
@@edwardcricchio6106 but the height of resentment found in songs such as “I’m a good ol rebel” was fading as it was at its hottest in the years just after the war.
That was only partly accepted, debate raged,but most Southerners had to concede that even if secession had been considered legal at the time, the Supreme Court had ruled it unconstitutional in Texas vs. White. So, if they claimed a constitutional right, they had been wrong. On that basis, that they had fought for what they thought was right, the quarrel was settled. And confederate vets saluted Roosevelt.
@@edwardcricchio6106
Those Southerners did more than just create the myth of the "Lost Cause of the Confederacy," as well as rewriting the history of the Civil War by claiming that it was all about "States' Rights," rather than slavery.
Their revised history also stated that the Reconstruction period following the war was a tragedy beyond belief, that it was completely punitive, that the South was mistreated by Northern authority, that the so-called "Carpetbaggers" from the North exploited the South for profit, but worst of all, the white people of the South insisted that their slaves were happy during their days on the plantations, that their masters were kind to them, that releasing them left them vulnerable to the slyness and dishonesty of the Carpetbaggers as well as "renegade" blacks from the North who supposedly encouraged the Southern blacks to seek revenge against the people who "owned" them, to terrorize the Southern whites, to keep them from voting, and even to ravish their women!
This, the Southern revisionist historians insisted, was the reason that the white men of the South formed vigilante organizations like the Ku Klux Klan to protect themselves and their women and children from the ravages of the blacks.
This distorted view of the past also formed the "historical" basis for a series of racist novels written by the Reverend Thomas A. Dixon, a bigoted minister.
One of these novels was particularly inflammatory. It was called "The Clansman: A Historical Romance Of The Ku Klux Klan" (1905). It depicted the black people of the South (as well as the Northern "renegade" blacks) not just as beasts and rapists of white women, but as ignorant, simple-minded, and even "dirty." It describes vindictive black "mobs" with "onion-laden breath" mixed with "perspiring African odor." At one point, a white man declares that "for a flat-nosed, thick-lipped, spindle-shanked negro, exuding his nauseating animal odor, to yell in derision over the homes and hearths of white men and women, is an atrocity too monstrous for belief! The issue, sir, is civilization, not whether a negro will be protected, but whether society is worth saving from barbarism!"
In the end, Dixon's Southern "civilization" is saved from "barbarism" by the KKK.
Over a decade later, "The Clansman" would serve as the inspiration for what was considered the first real motion picture epic, D.W. Griffith's famous Civil War film, "The Birth Of A Nation" (1915). Like the novel, the film glorified the Ku Klux Klan, showing it as a heroic force protecting Southern whites from the "wicked Africans" (black people), who were shown as nothing but wild brutes.
Despite its historical inaccuracies and its negative portrayal of blacks, the movie gained a bit of respectability when it was shown to President Woodrow Wilson, his family, and assorted guests, at the White House in Washington, DC. "It was like writing history with lightning," the President said after being awed by the film, "my only regret is that it is all so terribly true."
Wilson's praise for "The Birth Of A Nation" wasn't really surprising, since he was a proud Southerner who not only believed the legends about the Southern "Lost Cause" and about Dixieland's mistreatment by the North and the blacks, but he also perpetuated the myths years before when, as a college professor, he wrote an American history book containing a passage about "a great Ku Klux Klan" being formed by Southern men out of a sense of "self preservation," especially "in the villages," where blacks "were the office holders."
By the way, Wilson wasn't the only white Southerner who held a government office and praised Mr. Griffith's film. There was also Edward White, who was the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, where he became notorious for making rulings that weakened anti-trust laws. Thomas Dixon, the author of the novel that "The Birth Of A Nation" was based on, came to Chief Justice White's office one day and asked if he would like to see a new movie, but White turned him down, saying he wasn't interested. Dixon then appealed to White's Southern background, telling him that the film was about the horrors of Reconstruction, and about the South's "redemption" by the Ku Klux Klan. This remark immediately got the Chief Justice's attention. "I was a member of the Klan," he told Reverend Dixon, "many a night, I walked my sentinel's beat through New Orleans' roughest streets, with a rifle on my shoulder. I'll be there."
Anyway, the film had a great impact on the American public at the time. It made people believe the false history that was being shown on their local movie house screens, it caused an increase in anti-black prejudice, and it convinced its audiences that black people were basically monsters at heart, who needed to be controlled.
What an incredible voice on this lady!! What a gifted voice!!
Michael Adinolfe ....I believe the lady singing "Gary Owen" is the Director (John Milius) current wife, Elan Oberon, who was in a couple of "B-Movies" during her brief acting career. And yes, she did a very good job. - Texas Hoosier
Thank you for this information sir. She is certainly a gifted singer!
Wow. I am literally watching this right now, and I have spent a bit searching, and finally found it!
Sam Elliot always portrays an NCO that most soldiers would follow to hell and back....and many an officer would be proud to have as an adjutant.
@Ante Pavelic Sorry for the delay - Heroyam Slava my brother #Ukraine WILL RESIST...
Teddy saluting the old civil war veterans.... and the footage from 2:10 .
Also "Grandpa their wearing blue they are Yankees" No they are americans !!!
Priceless !!!!!!
Hearing the strains of this song in hundreds of old westerns it was refreshing to hear it sung. Watching and listening to the men of the 7th Cav in the early 60s in German play this, carrying on the traditions of the 7th was inspiring.
I'd have to say this is one of most forgotten wars in American history the Spanish American war
+Eirikr Haakonson agreed
+Eirikr Haakonson not even your the Philippine american war which american soldiers executed 10 to 70 years old thinking they were the enemies burning villages and crops leaving the dead too rot
+Pat Aherne also ur how old and ur leaving retarded comments like that Im like at least a third ur age but u act like ur 12
Pat Aherne not to the degree that anyone would notice
Hey Leonardo isn't there an AntiFa protest you should be attending? What happened Soros' check didn't clear? Imperialists now live in the Kremlin and want to bring Ukraine "back to the reservation" but Donbass will never be surrendered....you need a lesson on what is imperialism and what is occupation and enslavement you DUPA
Before there was a 7th cav, the fighting 69th was playing that Irish tune.Also Irish units all over the world were playing it.the town of Garryowen is in Limerick Ireland. Faugh a Balag,which means clear the way.
No it isn't. Yes is not only in Munster, yet County Limerick to boot. However, it never has been and never will be associated with the city's glorious impenetrable walls.
this movie is a masterpiece
I vry everytime son run to dad sergeant . I had to goodbye to my dad and watch him march to a runaway for desert storm. But I still remember them coming down the same runway home they stuck the Colors out the top hatch. It wasn't a cheer our loves are homes, it filled pride too. We all knew we kicked Hussein's ass.. I watched a lot Vietnam vet stioop and thank my dad. I remember the surprise in their eyes when they out he was a Vietna vet too. This scene always bring that back.
Garryowen God bless our 7th cavalry!!!'nn
4-7 CAV Desert Storm. Garryowen Forever!!
The Spanish-American war was what united the North and South once again, when in war-time, the soldiers fighting next to each other didn't care who was a former Union Soldier or Confederate, they were Americans fighting to survive, that's all that mattered to them.
I am a Vietnam veteran. The portrayal of combat in this film is about as accurate as you are going to get in a movie. As well you know, what can describe the smell of death? Of you friend screaming? I can't.
yes, also the most accurate battle (at least in medieval times) was in Kenneth Branagh`s Henry the 5th at agincourt.
Puke, shit, piss, burning rubber and cherry juice.
People dont realize "This Splendid Little
War", reunited NORTH and SOUTH.
2:20, seeing John Bell Hood say that puts a smile on my face (same actor who played him from "Gettysburg" and "Gods and Generals)
Are you sure that’s hood?
@@DV1287
Yes this is Patrick Gorman. The Actor who played John Bell Hood in both Movies.
@@turboegon lol same actor prob a different role. John Bell Hood died in 1879. The Spanish American war was in 1898. No way he lived another 20 years
@@DV1287 I mean the actor not the role.
@@turboegon then yes
Mean while we fighting those great soldiers ( and bloody great marksman the Boers ) love from the UK 🇬🇧
"No son...they're Americans". Outstanding ....A number One.
The face of the man walking up the ramp, looking for his love who didn't come to see him off.😢
Got the last line in this piece. Watch to the end.
You got the last line, as well as the VERY best line. People all over are commenting about your performance, excellent job!
Thank you for your service, Bryant.Rue. I'm glad you are back home. I haven't fought in combat, but I have watched this movie and it is about like what my father, who fought on Okinawa in WW2 says it was. Unlike the movies, it's usually the bravest and the leaders who get killed first and the others have to join in quickly and that's the way in this movie. Thanks again.
Teddy Roosevelt was one helluva man!!
iam choked up with pride and a tear in eye .
young boy .." but thay are wearing blue blue grand pa thay are yankies."
old man.."No thay are amreicans"
and iam british it makes me proud to have american family over there .
That's some old school fighting men right there.
I must get this on DVD !
In fact in their training camps their song was 'we're gonna have a hot time in the old town tonight" changed to a hot time in old cuba tonight.
Geoffrey Lewis - one of my favourite utility actors.
It real nice to have an song remember our fighting troops that went to cuba.ART H.
Teddy Roosevelt 2012!!The most badass president ever!!
One of my "signature" tunes. I generally play it with Minstrel boy, which was actually the Rough Riders tune.
Teddy wanted this to be our national anthem
Teddy said this should be our national anthem
Greatest Movie ever made.
This clip rocks! The lady whose beauty only 2nds to her voice xewhose voice is hipnotizing and what the grandfather says to his grandson is a chill down my spine!
Therese Tate...
i love this! get stuck in boys, give 'em hell.
but they're wearing blue Grandpa, they are Yankees. No, they're Americans. :') ooh rah.
722redtree A good message. Thanks, it was worth doing just for that line. I also played the Colonel of the 71st New York. The role of the old Reb was uncredited.
+Patrick Gorman wait are u THE patrick goreman
@722redtree When did we as a country loose our way from that kind of sentiment? Damn the politically correct left - they are the one's to blame!
@@ukrainiansniper5916 *lose
Still yankees
Gerryowen and glory!
Me and the boys leaving Saint Denis to go fight in Guarma
good tune.
I would love to walk down the aisle with that playing! The vicar would have a fit.
Clearly you and I are some of the few who appreciate our history, for good and bad.
Too much presentism these days.
When my myopia was socially acceptable. I carried eight pairs of spectacles into combat in 1990.
the worst mistake they did was take this scene out of the movie, probably one of the most moving scenes in cinema, even the historical accuracy of confederate veterans is perfect.. if any video deserves 5-5 this is it
As they load up...the lady in purple says good-bye to several Soldiers. Hmm...its still the same around Army bases today. Dependas gotta depend
The final scene sums things up.
damn right man
Trainbrain1949 A good message for us, I think. I also played the Colonel of the 71st New York. The role of the old Reb was uncredited.
Patrick Gorman very true lol
I just realized it's not just blanket roll; it's a shelter half too.
guess i gott-a set the record stright..back in the late 60s i met a old soldier that went up san juan hill,,when he died he left me his gauntlets he wore during the charge,still have them today,,he also gave me some knowledge about good old teddy and his actuall involvement with the charge...he did not lead the charge as most historians think,,he was not all that close to the front line,,yes he did order the charge up san juan hill,,but lead it,,NO..i am 65,this guy was 90 in 65..
It is interesting to see the logistics that was involved in moving US Volunteers and Regular Army regiments with all of their horses, wagons, artillery, caissons, weapons and supplies by rail, from all across the nation to staging areas and ports in Florida. The Spanish-American War was America's first trans-oceanic war of sorts, especially when the invasion of Spanish held Philippines is figured into the matrix. A lot of mistakes and lessons in logistics were made then, and learned in time for World War I just two decades later.
Richard Najjar Amphibious assault......just about the hardest thing to do....and they're trying it for the first time. If the Spaniards had been ready for them on the beaches of Daiquiri.....it could have been a blood bath...
The best line said: "No. They are Americans."
Thank you!!!
Purely Hollywood fiction My Friend! The one legged Confederate is local legend here, the Rough Riders passed on the track behind the Old Soldier's Home in Biloxi, Ms. on their way to Florida, and then to Cuba, and other ex-Confederates may have lined the tracks there...but that line : Fiction!
In the Fighting Seventh's the place for me,Its the cream of all the Cavalry;No other regiment ever can claimIts pride, honor, glory and undying fame.
at 2.24"they are americans!"
iam english and that got me choaked up with pride for the americans.
I love this movie!
Robin Poe Me, too, even with the inaccuracy of the German machine gun. Still, a good message. I also played the Colonel of the 71st New York, by the way. The role of the old Reb was uncredited.
That's really cool. I heard they enlisted the help of re-enactors in the movie as well.
"Grandfather, run to the river!" Little Big Man
Wow a very good moment when the aged Confederates waved on the next generation of a United America (with BOTH Confederate and US Flags ironically)...they symbolism is great and its accurate to history when the Rough Riders went through the South on their way to Cuba.
Interesting aside to this, it was in 1905 that President Theodore Roosevelt signed the executive order returning the captured Confederate battle flags from the US War Department Archives to the Southern States.
Great Irish tune. Used by the British army and then the Seventh Cavalry.
Garry owen is one most millitary songs that have an lot of history to it.Art H
Roosevelt is well liked in the South, in spite of his NY heritage.
Roosevelt was loved by all regions,races and peoples of America. Jackie Robinson's mother gave him Roosevelt as a middle name in honor of him
The singer is Elan Oberon, the wife of director John Milius.
I didn't know that. Thanx. Milius is the greatest of the directors. The only director that had the guts to make the original "Red Dawn."
Nice
el soldado no combate al enemigo sabiendo lo te tiene al frente , sino lo que esta defendiendo detras.- LA LIBERTAD
I looked it up. It's not supposed to be Hood, since he died in 1879.
Right, I was just a Reb grandfather - and later, shaved the beard and played the Colonel of the 71st NY that chased Teddy down the train tracks after he absconded with my train!!! I was originally cast as Wheeler but Milius wanted a name, so....
The war where we were truly united as one.
And the one the World sees as America´s first UNJUST RACIST ONE. Even Kipling had written a mock poem about the USA to this matter, called THE WHITE MAN´s BURDEN ( in German it is also famous: DIE LAST DES WEISSEN MANNES it is called here around - classical shool material )
very interesting fact... an Irish song the original was written by Tom Berenger’s(Teddy Roosevelt) Great Great (maybe one more great) Grandfather in Ireland as a Irish drinking song words were eventually rewritten to work w the 7 th Calvery’s marching song.
I with this movie had shown 1890s dynamite guns. Supposedly the 1st USVC was supported by two.
Teddy had charisma, and he transcended regional animosities.... thank God, this war set the stage for thousands of US troops spilling into the trenches there in "La Belle France" at the critical time! Teddy set the stage for our US Navy chasing down the U-Boats... and he influenced his relative Franklin, when he, years later, sat down with a man named Winston! Teddy WAS an American! In the greatest aspects of what an American should be.
Gen. John Bell Hood survived the Civil War to die in the 1870s or 1880s with his wife and at least one of his kids in a Yellow Fever epidemic, so, the actor Patrick Gorman must have been playing just an old Confederate colonel as the Rough Riders passed through the south in 1898 to Florida where they would take ship to Cuba.
Thanks, you got it.
In the movie " Bite the Bullet ", Gene Hackman's character says of ' the charge up San Juan Hill ' ... " charge ? we crawled up that bloody hill "
In 2016, we need Teddy Roosevelt.
hell yeah
instead we had teddy ruxpin.
2018 too sadly.
Yeah, and we got stuck with Trump!
@@michaelpalmieri7335 well now Americans are stuck with a dementia patient you liberal clowns cheated into office ! Enjoy his destruction of America! Who will you whine about now ?
The casting of Gary Busey as General Joseph Wheeler was a huge mistake. Wheeler was 62 or so in 1898. They should have found an older man to play the part. Wheeler was the symbol that McKinley wanted to show the nation that the Civil War was finally over and the nation was fighting as one once again. Speaking of Union Blue, when James Longstreet saw Wheeler dressed in the blue uniform he remarked, "Joe, I hope God Almighty takes me before he does you, for I want to be within the Gates of Hell to hear Jubal Early cuss you in that blue uniform."
I was originally signed to play Wheeler, being close to the right age and though not 5'5" but 5'10" - but Milius wanted a star and didn't think I was quirky enough. Still, he wanted me in the film - I played the Reb Grandfather and a Yankee as the Colonel of the 71st NY that chased Teddy down the train tracks!!!
@@patrickgorman2070I remember you in the part of the Rebel Grandfather. Yes, you would have been a perfect Joe Wheeler. I thought Gary Busey did not really capture the essence of an older man who was asked to go out in the field and fight one more war. Thanks for letting me know the inside scoop.
Anyone interested in the Spanish American War, there’s an organization called the Sons of Spanish American War Veterans. There are two membership options, hereditary, for those who have family ties to the war, and associate, for those who are just interested in the history.
It's worth noting that the Spanish in Cuba and the English in South Africa, against the Boer; got the Concentration Camp model started !!!
We have another TR now!!
TR proposed Garry Owen as our national anthem
Is that Patrick Gorman, the guy that played Hood in Gettysburg?
Yup, that was me. Also played the Col. of the 71st NY - but I was the original Wheeler until they decided they needed a star!!!!
@@patrickgorman2070 They should have kept you as Wheeler. I was always impressed by how well you portrayed Hood's courage in Gettysburg.
a UNION song!
@Sisyphus27
Ah you ask an interesting question and there is a good answer to it.
Some of the men who fought in the Spanish-American War were indeed Southern but that is only half of it.
Southerners then (and in some cases now) share a dual loyalty in this country. We consider ourselves Americans first but also Southerners as a group and as a culture.
Waving the Southern Cross is our way of honoring who we are as a distinct American people...though we wave the US flag more (or both at once).
To some the Spainish-American War of 1898 was like the Korean War of 1950, a forgotten war, except to those who lost someone in the war.
From the 69th Irish brigade, to Custer's boys, to the rough riders.... And to whom ever next...
This is a song for everyone
very interesting fact... an Irish song the original was written by Tom Berenger’s(Teddy Roosevelt) Great Great (maybe one more great) Grandfather in Ireland as a Irish drinking song words were eventually rewritten to work w the 7 th Calvery’s marching song.
@@focusmedia4881 huh? Who's 2nd-3rd great gramp? Tom Berenger, Theodore Roosevelt, George Armstrong Custer? Your "facts" contradict each other. Have you taken Elementary College literature and failed for twenty semesters? Or did you just never graduate highschool due to repeated plagiarism, assault and narc pos charges?
@@zoologist1992 the lunatic left heard from again
@@zoologist1992 So 'who' did this song represent in your 'expert opinion'?
Teddy Roosevelt/Thomas Jefferson 2012!!
AMEN!!!