MSNBC Melissa Harris-Perry February 16, 2013
Fellow soldiers boarded a convoy to embark on the first ever u. S. Army coasttocoast motor transport train averaging a mere 5 miles per hour, it took the caravan two months to reach San Francisco, driving along the local lanes and the state roads, but they were in such disrepair that the soldiers had to fix 88 bridges themselves just to complete the journey. Years later, that same young soldier, dwight d. Eisenhower, found himself again on the road, but this time as a general commanding the allied forces in world war ii. Along the pristine freshly built roads of the german autobon. Troops and ...