Reply #151: Mine is Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler, USMC

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He's discussed in my sig line. The most decorated hero of World War I and the man who foiled a plot by fascists to take down FDR's government. When I first started using it, there was little info on him available on the internet and now there's much more. I like to think I had some "viral" influence on that.
Butler's story is fascinating. In the 1930s, he was going around the Midwest making speeches against the corporate interests that were always fomenting war but the fascist conspirators who recruited him to be the figurehead of their coup weren't aware of how anti-war his views had become. His "War Is a Racket" is timeless, unfortunately.