General Smedley Darlington Butler
Butler, Smedley D. / Cipriano Venzon, Ann / Venzon, Anne Cipriano
Major General Smedley Darlington Butler was a maverick marine, the emblem of "the old corps, " and one of the most controversial figures in Marine history. He was a high school dropout who became a major general, a Quaker and a devout family man who was one of the toughest of the Marines, an aristocrat who championed the common man, a leader who thought of himself as striving to help the oppressed of the countries he occupied as the commander ...