Daily Kos :: Fort Huachuca: From Geronimo to Intelligence, Inc.: "Fort Huachuca: From Geronimo to Intelligence, Inc.
by SusanHu
Mon Mar 7th, 2005 at 19:38:00 PST

In forced exile in Florida, Alabama and finally Oklahoma, Geronimo pleaded 'for his Apaches' return to Arizona.' One day he told General Nelson Miles, who had hunted Geronimo and his 24 warriors with 10,000 soldiers, 'civilian irregulars,' and Apache scouts without success until Geronimo left his fortress:
'the acorns and the pinon nuts, the quail and the wild turkey, the giant cactus and the palo verdes - they all miss me. I miss them too. I want to go back to them.'
Miles replied, 'A very beautiful thought, Geronimo. But the men and women who live in Arizona, they do not miss you, ... [they] sleep now [with] no fear that Geronimo will come and kill them.'
'Hardened troopers from Fort Huachuca' -- a fort in the middle of Apacheria, now Arizona -- 'tracked down the defiant Geronimo in 1886, and with his surrender brought the Apache campaigns to a close.'
Today, Fort Huachuca is a 'military base with a long history of covert military action [that] housed the training of many ... interrogators who worked in the prisons of Cuba's Guantanamo Bay and Iraq's now infamous Abu Ghraib prison.' "