what did this man do? was this a staged photo? if not, what could possibly warrant all those bayonets? If so, did the photographer get pissed that guy on the right for looking into the camera? I have so many questions
Some light digging, and we have an answer: this is Col. Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle (Sr.), instructing trainee Marines. Apparently Biddle was known to tell the trainees to try their best to kill him with their bayonets, before easily disarming them without wielding any weapons, himself. He trained soldiers in hand-to-hand combat in both World Wars, was declared “Boxing’s Greatest Amateur”, and started a movement called Athletic Christianity. Wealthy and notably eccentric, he was the basis for the play “The Happiest Millionaire”, which apparently exaggerates very little of his life.
So, this is very likely a staged photograph he planned to his own amusement, but it’s also very possible that he handed each one of these men their own individual ass the moment after the picture was taken.
i swear it would be easier to explain if someone looked over my shoulder and saw me watching porn than to explain some of the posts on my damn dashboard…this being one of them
I am Silver Tongue, I am an artist. I have many characters and you can check out my art in the art tag. I occasionally practice witchcraft though I don't do anything too complicated. I am girl 2 and don't know what else to put here.
