When a future President of the US played Desdemona, Shakespeare in the World, The Compass - BBC...

I must admit that the notion of him playing such a role is a pretty nifty aspect to his personality. I just thought you might all possibly find of interest that in a list of personnel in the Mexican war I'd glanced through a while back, he also evidently was twice offered a brevet promotion. The first instance, I'd read, amazingly, he evidently declined, clearly out of modesty, evidently, while I gather he must, I think, was likely told to take the second one. I don't know if he just accepted it, directly, or needed to be ordered to, though I gather he was brevet promoted the second time. I just found of considerable interest that he did apparently decline the first one when it had been offered, which clearly speaks volumes in a positive light about his character, certainly, his future mother in law said, in something else I'd read, that she found him "noble" in his bearing, which I also thought a most perceptive observation from one's future mother in law, no?

WOW ! Really ? I don't know what to think about that PO1 William "Chip" Nagel

Great read - thanks for the post.