Talk:Danny Deever

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Nice small article, good job Jaranda wat's sup 20:52, 23 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Popular culture/literary references?

The novel Starship Troopers refers to this poem when one mentions that a trooper will be hung for crimes ("making one dance 'Danny Deever'.") Shouldn't this be mentioned in the article somewhere? --Micahbrwn (talk) 08:49, 11 December 2007 (UTC)


The exact quote from Starship Troopers is:

"They were going to do it to him... they were going to do the "Danny Deever" to Ted Hendrick."

This was not spoken out loud, but rather a thought had by Johnny Rico immediately after Ted was found guilty of striking a superior officer, and immediately before sentencing for same at the field court-martial. His sentence was not hanging, as it almost certainly would have been in a general court-martial, but ten lashes and a Bad Conduct Discharge. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.180.159.104 (talk) 08:26, 17 April 2008 (UTC)