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Fella that bought the farm next to ours served with Patton in Europe. He NEVER talked about the war, ever.

First time I saw the movie “Patton”, he was with us. He came out of the theatre with tears running down his face, just looked at me and said “that’s that SOB top to bottom.”

The only other times he mentioned the war at all were if someone disparaged the memory of “Georgie”.

And he never heard Montgomery’s name that he didn’t cuss and spit.

That neighbor of yours kind of sounds like my father.
My father was with Third Army, 11th Armored at the Battle of The Bulge. The only thing he had to say about Patton was “He was an SOB, but he got things done”.
He did see the movie Patton with my mother, he said “there was a lot more snow than they showed in the movie”.
He hated snow until the day he died.
Only time he ever talked about the war was when I came home from Viet Nam, had to get him drunk as a skunk before he was willing to open up. Even then he just wanted to talk about the time him and his buddies drove their half-track into a barn with 2 walls and half the roof blown out, he said it was great not to have to sleep in the snow or the mud.