About The Indian Burial Grounds Part II and The Children Of "The Beast" - the dreaded waiting period.

Actually, I learned this neat trick from Alexander the Great! You see, after he conquered Persia his army was satisfied and wanted to go back to Greece. Alexander reminded his army, we are supposed to conquer the world! Much to Alexander's surprise his soldiers told him they refused to fight and must get back home to Macedonia to be with wives!

Oh, the poor little, sex hungry, Macedonian soldiers! They needed to be with their wives. The Golden Chalice, Glory and Immortality is within reach and these clowns want to go home.

Wow! Immortality, that's a big word - it should be if that's what your swinging swords for! Anyway, babies the lot of them! Here's what happened.

Alexander went into his tent and sulked for about a week. He flat out refused to eat or talk to any of his officers or soldiers, including Hephastion, his childhood best friend and next in command. Well! These womanizing Macedonian soldiers did not want their fearless leader, Alexander the Great, to die, not to mention who would lead these scoundrels back home to their nice, caring and loving wives.

Now the greatest army ever to grace the earth, the Macedonians, got very depressed. As recorded in history, these scoundrels finally came to their senses and, with Alexander the Great, went on to conquer Asia, the world, and history was made.

Alexander, by the way, was no fool. His teacher was Aristotle! There was food in Alexander's tent, it was his army that wasn't eating! There is more to this story. About a month earlier, Alexander's great army was facing what appeared to be an impregnable fortress. In their usual 'phalanx' battle formation (our own generals still study this, by the way), I use it myself, but I call it Classified Ads.

Once again, Alexander's frightened soldiers refused to move, and here is what happened next. Alexander's field generals ride up to him and yell "Alexander, we will have to wait here and starve them out - this 'prozac', I mean fortress, is just too strong to overtake by charge and brute force".

Alexander looked at these Macedonian womanizers - not warriors - and yelled back at them "Starve them out? Are you generals and my soldiers out of your minds! We don't have time for that".

Yes reader, by himself Alexander the Great, on his faithful war-horse 'Bucethalus', charged that impregnable fortress, successfully made it to the enemy's gates (he was after all Alexander the Great). Next he scaled the mighty wall - much to the surprise and horror of it's many defenders, he then jumped inside the fortress completely surrounded and fought like hell!

Back to Alexander's frightened, but now very wide awake, and shocked Macedonian army (reader, this is not just a story - Alexander the Great actually did this and much more).

They all looked at each other, completely stunned and embarrassed, and realized their fearless leader was all alone and fighting for his life amongst the enemy. They screamed so even God could hear them!

"Hey! Are we not the fearless Macedonians, the greatest army ever to march in battle, grace the earth and conquer the known world! Or are we cowards and mice?

In very short order my friends, that impregnable fortress was taken. So you see, the conquering of the impossible prozac, I mean impregnable fortress, and the dreaded waiting period was actually invented by Alexander the Great!