Dispatches from TJICistan points out a delightful fact about General Frederick N. Funston--the apparently sensitivity-free Medal of Honor recipient known for his manliness in both the Spanish-American War and the Philippine-American War, and the current namesake for Fort Funston--who once boasted the following. Ahem:

I personally strung up thirty-five Filipinos without trial, so what was all the fuss over Waller's 'dispatching' a few 'treacherous savages'? If there had been more Smiths and Wallers, the war would have been over long ago. Impromptu domestic hanging might also hasten the end of the war. For starters, all Americans who had recently petitioned Congress to sue for peace in the Philippines should be dragged out of their homes and lynched. [Wikipedia]

Which is interesting since Fort Funston is now a place of peace, known for its drum circles and popularity among the shower-estranged. In fact, do, for lack of a better word, hippie-ish types still congregate there? We seem to remember the sound of distant drumming there not so long ago. Do you remember when hippies owned Fort Funston? Or did they ever?