If a statue of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.
And if it's just a statue with no horse????
Really??? So where are all the statues at Arlington National Cemetary??? I mean given this little tidbit of information one would be safe in assuming there would be more than a stable full of statues depicting the fallen in various poses with said horse...no??? No horses??? Where's George S. Patton's horse statue??? Oh that's right...there isn't a horse statue erected for arguably the greatest general of the last century...why??? Because statues aren't erected for people assassinated by their own government! Not too mention that most statues are of people deified by either the sculptor or by the people who commission the sculptor. Take for instance probably the biggest commissioned sculpture/statue of all time...Mt. Rushmore...4 Presidents...former slave owners...all proponents of Manifest Destiny...the concept that the United States should continue to expend at the cost of driving all native inhabitants from the land they want...or forcing them to live under the occupying regimes set of laws...sculpted by Gutzon Borglum...'Who the fuck is that?' you might ask...and so would I...if I didn't already tell ya...he was the sculptor commissioned by Congress to deify the aforementioned Presidents on the face of a mountain right in the middle of the Sioux nation...but why is Mr. Borglum's identity important...probably because he was an active member of the K.K.K....'Oh, C'mon'...you're probably saying...do some research...personally I don't much care for statues of people...95% of the time I'm like the pigeon...I'd just as soon shit on it as look at it...to me it isn't an art form...it's idol worship...normally of a person who has been misidentified as a hero to the people...history gets muddled and millions of tourists will pop by just to say they've been...they have no idea what the intention of the statue is...or why it was created. And quite honestly...all of the graveyards I've visited are filled with more headstones than horse sculptures...which would lead one to believe not a soul buried within ever even fought in battle...these people don't get a horse sculpture for their service to country...for making the ultimate sacrifice of giving their life in battle...no...in order for a sculpture of your dead ass riding a horse you hafta do something really courageous...like lead 10,000 troops to a battlefield...command them to attack while you sit on a steed on a hilltop overlooking the carnage of your troops getting slaughtered in the fight below...they end up dying in battle...or from battle wounds because they get hit by an errant exploding cannonball...not because they are in line with their troops leading the charge! How about next time we commission a sculpture of someone who died in battle...it's of a troop hobbling outta the desert on one leg...half an arm missing...the left eye socket oozing some fluid from where the eye used to be...struggling to drag the bloody dismembered body of his fallen comrade to safety...those are the real heroes...not some loud mouthed...assbag general who sits in an airconditioned structure hundreds of miles from the engagement barking orders his little political puppetted ass is issued from another buncha hypocrites sittin in Washington D.C. !!!
