And so the insanity begins of of sending Cadets so green they're just seedlings. It's like they say they are excited to fight and someone says "great, here's a gun."
Or, in Price's case, "great, you got two feet, come on." I wonder what exactly he expects them to do.
I'm reminded of lines in a Hogan's Heroes episode, I think it's the one where the British prisoner/ saboteur Newkirk has accidentally been sworn into the German army and he tries to make excuses. "Don't you want to look at my blood?" "Why are you bleeding?" "I could have some serious illness." "But, you meet the One requirement for a German soldier. You are breathing."
Ty Cobb was not as racist as some people portray him - not much more than southerners of his era anyway - from what research has shown, as pointed out at baseball-fever.com. "He didn't just hate black people, he hated people," as one Negro League star said later. (He did praise Jackie Robinson for instance.) But he is a good comparison with Sherman, the kind of guy who teammates found somewhat odious 1 with a nasty disposition but who was such a superstar that it was overlooked. And like Cobb, Sherman was willing to help, or at least not hinder, the cause of black people when it suited him. And you can imagine sharpening his spikes compared with Sherman's war tactics.