European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1 i the stars and stripes feature Section j f ill if Iii ? by .1. Alvin Kugelmass stall writer h e was born to the Saddle. Before you turn Vearny from this corny Lead the tact of the matter is that m it Robein i. Borg. Olympic  Vinne. Of the 77 j6th horse p  was i in the Saddle it happened some 39 year a. His Virther. Then jiving in the philippine. As astride s horse one a when sheol her rime upon Hei she dismounted ibid gave birth to Bob since then except for some  he s treating a horse for the Glan. Airs or writing a Book on that Large  animal he s never been out of the Saddle. Sounds like an exaggeration Buthis Bowlegs prop the theory or Circum ser t e it anyhow Bob has been with the platoon since it we. Activated aug. 20. 1948. Recently it War ordered deactivated and Bob in t Happy about it. There Are just 84 horse left at the Schweinfurt stables where he spends most of his waking time. The 84 horses veterans of the German army will soon be sold in Masse there Ric Ercal beauties among them. Bob. Who placed second in the olympic sin England last year said different peo Ples interestingly enough train their horse very much As you d expect. The germans for example he says Art. Dead serious about their training. That s Why they usually won the olym Pic you  the French he says Are somewhat flippant in the Way they handle their horses while the russian s usually Wai iop a Steed across his ears to keep him in the master servant relationship. He thinks it s sad that the tank i replacing the horse in modern warfare and although he understands some of themore important reasons. Bob feels pretty sure a Soldier on a horse looks More Noble than peeping from a tank. A Man on a horse if he sits Well Isa Beautiful sight he declared. A horseman from Way Back who Dis agrees with Bob is sgt Lawrenc Cnossen 60, who declares that horses Are far More Beautiful than  ladies  he says shortly. Now and then when Cnossen a cosign his name on one army paper or an other he scratches his Withers he says to recall it. For so Long has he been known simply and elegantly As  has been in the service since 1924, and All that time with horses too. He talks to his charges in their own language and he can Nicker with the Best of  guess i la be turned out to pasture  he said Rumi naively. He s not to Happy about losing his life s work to the advancement of military science. From1924 to 1942. Pop served with the old 115th Cav regt at new , wyo.,where horses Are considered first class citizens and Man comes in a loping  came to Europe in 1946 and joined the platoon and in 1948 he switched tothe 7766th. Pop is a huge Man with a beet red outdoorsy face and though he can swing uneasy leg Over the Saddle he rarely mounts for a  just like to see pm clean and shining and  he says. Pop is one of thelast if not the last of the old army men who first saw to their horses  Down themselves. You know son he said men my age spend a lot of time looking Back to old friends or Beautiful women they Vek Nown. I think Back to my horses. Funn thing a lot of horses i be known deserve More to walk upright than a lot of two legged animals i be  gives the secret of his vast health to living As simply and As cleanly a horses do. A lot of people Don t remember that the most Beautiful Story of airtime was Laid in a Manger my boy. Don t forget to mention that if you write some thing about  he said thoughtfully. Bob put on a Dawn exhibition for this reporter astride a horse called pan Craft. Which he had trained  was an astonishing arrangement of Man and beast in a fluid poetry of motion there in the cold Dawn with both like one organic body flowing against the sky in even unbroken lines. Bob uses his hips to order or gentle the East and with no perceptible movement that you can see. He puts him through the famous paces of the Spanish and italian , the horse will Canter now he will Trot Angularly like a loping dog drawings by capt l. M. Field now he shifts the course of his Angula Tion and is hunching this away. Now he is my lady s Palfrey like in an old print head Down eyes Meek. I t. Was difficult to Tell where horse Leftoff and Bob began. They were an admixture a blend of the even line artists love. The tricks of Light and Shadow inthe Dawn added to the Centaur like in  children ride and that includes Bob s Little girl of 3. And you won t be astonished to learn that he met his wife while  s olympics prize was won for dressage which is advanced Riding handsome of the toughest judges in the world were  of the approximately 160 men who were in the troop and who have been dispersed elsewhere since the deactivation order come to see their mounts whenever they can. Bob says. Americans were never very much interested in the horse As a martial bit of material he  horse nodded its great head approvingly and for some reason raised its eyes shrugged its shoulders and said neigh As though neigh in horse language were a kind of protest vote against deactivation