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To: bagster; reasonisfaith

Patton and Patch, good friends and extremely skilled WWII battlefield generals. Patch avoided the limelight so few today know his name.

Patton turned cursing into a high art, probably for effect, as he was from a very rich and cultured family.

Patch disliked cursing and wouldn’t permit it from his staff. Didn’t effect his friendship with Patton.

Both were plenty smart. My dad served under both, preferred Patch, although it didn’t have anything to do with cursing.

Both died within four months of the end of WWII, Patch at age 56 and Patton at 60.


1,220 posted on 03/10/2018 12:40:00 PM PST by Pelham (California, a subsidiary of Mexico, Inc.)
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To: Pelham; bagster

Sounds about right. Cursing is entirely independent of intellect.

But deceptiveness is not so independent of university researchers.


1,229 posted on 03/10/2018 12:44:41 PM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: Pelham
Patton was also a literal Olympic Athlete (decathlon or something similar).

His wife was from an even wealthier family than he was...

1,303 posted on 03/10/2018 1:24:19 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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