Wow. Didn’t even know he was sick. Stuck on deployment in the jungles of Honduras, I admonished you to be sure you studied up on your Patton.
You did. And you read up on some Rommel, too.
Thank you, General. Godspeed, to the final objective.
I remember him answering some question by mentioning Alexander the Great’s tactics at Arbela if that is spelled right. It seemed he knew his military history.
I also recall a briefing where he showed “the luckiest man in Iraq”, where a vehicle drove right through the cross hairs of a guided bomb and passed just in time to miss it.
And all the Eastern Front commanders via von Mellenthin. I distinctly remember this sitting on the little desk in his monk's cell of a room in the command bunker for Desert Storm, when he was interviewed by one of the media:
This before the offensive. A man fully informed by the past as he marched triumphantly into the future. Rare these days for sure.