``I must give him his due. He has considerably cretinized me.'' Lautréamont

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Saturday, May 28, 2005

Timing of Statue's Unveiling Upsets Vets

there's whiners everywhere

FORT EDWARD, N.Y. -- Maj. Robert Rogers, the frontiersman whose 18th century manual on guerrilla warfare has become a blueprint for Army Ranger fighting tactics, is getting what some consider a long-overdue honor: a statue in his memory. But some veterans believe unveiling the monument on Memorial Day is insensitive because Rogers was loyal to England during the Revolutionary War.

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