both sides a fight during the Spanish-American War, often with homemade firearms. Swearengen wrote, 'This is where John Pershing got his initial fame and fortune with his bosses — way ahead of the Pancho Villa thing. Teddy Roosevelt liked the way Pershing handled the situation in the Philippines and promoted him way over many officers senior to Pershing." The Moros were also a violently active boil in Japan's occupational backside during World War II. Many of the brave guerrilla bands active during the heavily publicized fighting were Moros with homemade or modified firearms. And why not? They had been fighting for their independence for nearly a hundred years at that time. As a retired U.S. intelligence officer who lived in and knows that Philippine political/ military situation well told me, "I'm sure the success of the Vietcong made a big impression on the Moros. They realized our country [the United States] was backing another comipt dictator and that those [Vietnamese] rebels actually won. No, the Moros are not Communists. Simply, they are people who want to be left alone. That's why they'll probably win, and I hope to hell we don't stay mixed up on the wrong side of this mess, too, like we did over there [in Vietnam]."