[mazda77]

"Then there's one thing you men will be able to say when this war is over and you get back home. Thirty years from now when you're sitting by your fireside with your grandson on your knee and he asks, 'What did you do in the great World War Two?' You won't have to cough and say, 'Well, your granddaddy shoveled shit in Louisiana.' No sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say 'Son, your granddaddy rode with the great Third Army and a son-of-a-goddamned-bitch named George Patton!':

Speech to the 3rd Army Gen. George Patton

[ohioman]

Great post. What’s funny is that I do remember my Grandfather telling me something similar to this when I asked him what he did in WWII when I was about 12 or 13:

‘..your granddaddy rode with the great Third Army and a son-of-a-goddamned-bitch named George Patton!’:

[neverevergiveup]

As compared to John Kerry’s comment:

“You know, education, if you make the most of it, if you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, uh, you, you can do well. If you don’t, you get stuck in Iraq.”