re: Did anyone see A&M's pretend soldiers save Lassie last weekend?

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Tell that to our US Military. They gave her Cadet General title. Who am I to argue. I personally would not stomp on a cadet general unless I hated America and her military

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That's sounds like a huge honor. Oh wait....

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Reveille made a cameo in the 1943 movie We've Never Been Licked, filmed on the A&M campus. During World War II, Americans could purchase a rank for their pet as part of a fundraiser for the K-9 Corps, a division that used trained dogs in active war zones. The cadets raised $100 to make Reveille a general. Enough donations poured in that the students commissioned a local artist to paint a portrait of “the General.”

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So, any kid's pet could given the rank of "General?" There were probably countless pets (cats, hamsters, sheep, etc.) that were bestowed the honor of being a "general."

I wonder if any of the others that bought this rank through mail order also put their pets in charge of a fake army. Do you think they call all their other pets "general" because they purchased the rank that one time way back when?

Do you have to pay $100 for each new Reveille?