Reply #113: Good post. But the name has entered vernacular speech, meaning "charge!" or the like.. [View All]

besides just the hero Geronimo's name. Like we say "Kleenex" to mean all tissue paper, etc.

When I first heard that they'd radio'd "Geronimo...Geronimo," meaning they had the target in sight or had engaged the target...I thought that using that name was inappropriate, and whose idea was that? That was my initial reaction. But I also a split second afterward thought that maybe they meant it in the everyday jargon way that people use the name, now.

But if it had been up to me, I would've come up with a different name, since I know that Geronimo was a Native American hero. But I only know that because I saw a documentary about him. Very good doc. Thank God for PBS, the Discover Channel, and stations like that. I've learned SO much more about historical figures than I ever learned in school. Probably because it's more interesting than reading dry facts in a book.

(I also think I MIGHT be part Native American, if that counts...or matters.) I'm supposedly almost 100% of French ancestors...but golly gee whiz, I can't help but wonder when I look in the mirror if I don't have a smidgeon of Native American.)