Posted on 11/10/2006 6:40:39 PM PST by eleni121
November 11th is the general's birthday and he like Donald Rumsfeld, resigned during war. General Patton was relieved of his command and decided to resign and Rumsfeld ...well few know the real reason for his resignation...
Oh, I'm sure there are number of people like me on this site, and anyone whose like me when it comes to anti-American, war-protesting freaks, then that person is also a reincarnation of Patton.
The Confederate newspapers, like the North's, were vicious in their criticism of how the war was being conducted. Lee's sarcastic comment reflected that. Rumsfeld should've used that line at his press conferences.
NO problem. But I still would like to know the real reason Rumsfeld resigned.
I don't think anyone outside of that circle will ever find that out. He doesn't strike me as the kiss and tell kind of person.
Can anyone tell me why I'm watching this movie on AMC when I already have it on DVD? Is that lazy?
Well we don't really know that. He could be anywhere....
Through the travail of ages,
Midst the pomp and toils of war,
Have I fought and strove and perished
Countless times upon a star.
As if through a glass, and darkly
The age-old strife I see -
Where I fought in many guises,
many names
- but always me.
A Soldier's Burial
by George S. Patton
Not midst the chanting of the Requiem Hymn,
Nor with the solemn ritual of prayer,
Neath misty shadows from the oriel glass,
And dreamy perfume of the incensed air
Was he interred;
But the subtle stillness after fight,
And the half light between the night and the day,
We dragged his body all besmeared with mud,
And dropped if, clod-like, back into the clay.
Yet who shall say that he was not content,
Or missed the prayers, or drone of chanting choir,
He who had heard all day the Battle Hymn
Sung on all sides by a thousand throats of fire.
What painted glass can lovelier shadows cost
Than those the evening skies shall ever shed,
While, mingled with their light, Red Battle's Sun
Completes in magic colors o'er our dead
The flag for which they died.
He was eccentric, but certainly not a nut. He was a dynamic and aggressive on the battlefield.
However, he did "not play well with others." He believed in himself--and did not think too much of others.
He was very instrumental in winning the war in Europe. His tactics and maneuverability allowed him to take an entire army and move it 90 degrees to the north to blunt the offensive in the Ardennes in Dec 1944.
The movie is good Hollywood. The man was much more interesting than the movie.
He should have. The media has become a necessary parasite feeding on a healthy democracy.
Grant to refuse to take Lee's sword on surrender. Nor spoils of war. But then the jackals took over.
General Patton's Funeral and Burial Site:
http://www.pattonhq.com/funeral.html
Thank you - Humbling...we have nothing without their sacrifice.
I'd like to visit someday...I wish it wasn't in Belgium though.
So here's to you General... a Texas A&M Aggie Band salute:
Now that's some salute!!!
Patton was right on that.
Thank God for Texas!
Thanks. A sad day it must have been for the millions who loved and admired him.
I wonder what truth if any there is in the claims that his death was not an accident...
There was exactly no way that Hollywood could present Patton's usual language in the film, at that date.
Patton would be, today, precisely the man to have in charge of the tactical side of the war against radical Islam. Although a cavalryman start to finish, he showed on numbers of occasions -- IN the heat of battle, not sitting in a think tank -- that he could adapt his tactics to the situation at hand. I don't believe for a moment that he would even conceive of the notion of defeating terrorists in either set-piece battles or anything remotely like the highly mobile motorised infantry and armour he used in WW II.
I have no clue as to who should head up the strategic side...but we'd better find some competent person damned quickly.
Now days when Patton comes on tv... no matter what time it is, I'll watch it to the end.
Very good bull!
Yes and Bradley's book A Soldier's Story
Yes, of course not
Yes I wish he were still around
and yes ASAP!
Patton didn't resign. He was on active duty,when he was injured in an accident, said injuries resulting in his death.
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