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1 posted on 04/03/2003 6:16:05 PM PST by ATCNavyRetiree
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Donno who said it, but its the last line in the movie Bridges at Toko Ri. Excellent movie.
2 posted on 04/03/2003 6:18:20 PM PST by rageaholic
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"I don't know why such fine young men get killed. There are so many battles left to fight."
3 posted on 04/03/2003 6:21:28 PM PST by sinkspur
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Patton to Chaplain: "Because of my intimate relations with the Almighty, I can assure you, if you write a good prayer, we'll have good weather. Now, I want that Goddamned prayer by 0-600."
4 posted on 04/03/2003 6:24:08 PM PST by Types_with_Fist
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This all the toilet paper in a MRE?
5 posted on 04/03/2003 6:26:50 PM PST by noutopia
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"We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children"
-Golda Maier
-Prime Minister Israel
6 posted on 04/03/2003 6:29:09 PM PST by 3k9pm
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This does not mean we are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: Only the dead have seen the end of war...


Duty, Honor, Country. 1962
General MacArthur
7 posted on 04/03/2003 6:42:28 PM PST by just me
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Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more. -- Gen George S. Patton.
8 posted on 04/03/2003 6:54:41 PM PST by Types_with_Fist
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Duty is ours; the consequences are God's.
-Stonewall Jackson-
12 posted on 04/04/2003 7:38:41 AM PST by stainlessbanner
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"Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time."

General George S. Patton, Jr. 3rd Army speech

England, 31 May 1944

6th Armored Division

13 posted on 04/04/2003 8:16:07 AM PST by MotleyGirl70 (If you like the French raise your left hand, if you ARE French raise both hands!!!!!!!!!)
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"War to the knife; knife to the hilt."
Nathan Bedford Forrest
14 posted on 04/04/2003 12:48:57 PM PST by warchild9
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