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To: yldstrk

When asked by his nephew about his profanity, Patton remarked, "When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to some bunch of little old ladies at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can't run an army without profanity; and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn't fight it's way out of a piss-soaked paper bag."

[http://www.pattonhq.com/speech.html]


6 posted on 11/07/2004 7:51:19 PM PST by SunkenCiv ("All I have seen teaches me trust the Creator for all I have not seen." -- Emerson)
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To: SunkenCiv

That's awesome!


7 posted on 11/08/2004 6:11:00 AM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys-Reagan and Bush)
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