As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
I have begun reading the memoirs of President Hiram Grant and in the first 100 pages, a more lackluster man has never been put into print. His idea was to get out of the army which he had appeared in at West Point appointment, so he could become a math professor at West Point.
In the quote below, he mentions the Congressman who got him his appointment to West Point, appeared in the Mexican War, and Grant thought if he had not died in Mexico, that Congressman Thomas Hamer would be been President instead of Franklin Pierce.
Grant figured that his being a favorite of Hamers, that Hamer as President would have appointed him to some staff position, possibly as paymaster and by the 1880's Grant would have been preparing to retire from the army, another unknown person to the world.
There is a refrain by US Grant in these pages of men have no little control over their destinies.
That is a fascinating judgement from a man who was consistently put on a path by God on a mission in being swept forward.
Is it a fact that some men are saved from the mundane when they truly are mundane for greatness, and others who are of greatness are struck down, to put others into a place where they are the solution.
Nuff Said
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