03-08-2008, 01:57 PM
GO MULES!
I love mules!!! They are by far underated. I keep threatening to do a lecture to my Civil War Roundtable on Mules. They were used by the U.S Army right through WWII. Of course they remain the mascot of West Point. Years ago I went to the last Yale-Army game at Yale. The only seats we could get were in the midst of the Army side. Here were 5 of us in our Yale blues singing the Yale fight songs in the middle of all the Army Brass. I really kept hoping one would make a comment about how badly Yale was playing so that I could come back with "Hey, at least we never were forced to eat our mascot".... One of my great unused lines.