Posted by
AJH on Monday, February 09, 2009 7:01:35 AM
No, not our portly little actor friend Jack Black, who happens to be married to one of Charlie Haden's daughters. (Haden was born in Shenandoah, Iowa, where the subject of my interest in Black Jack lived before being sent off to war in France.)
Instead Black Jack was the nickname of General Pershing, leader of the American Expeditionary Force in World War I. While poking around on the Internet, I found an article on him and his book on the war, My Experiences in the World War, in TIME magazine. One thing I find rather cool is his modest gravestone at Arlington.
The “subject” I mentioned previously is Leslie Warren Darling, a young man when he died in France near a farm which served as a battlefield and then a field hospital. I am researching a book on him — his life and experiences.
AJH