Posted on 06/04/2008 5:28:57 PM PDT by pissant
Be Seated.
Men, this stuff we hear about America wanting to stay out of the war, not wanting to fight, is a lot of bullsh*t. Americans love to fight - traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. When you were kids, you all admired the champion marble player; the fastest runner; the big league ball players; the toughest boxers. Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win - all the time. I wouldnt give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. Thats why Americans have never lost, not ever will lose a war, for the very thought of losing is hateful to an American.
You are not all going to die. Only two percent of you here today would die in a major battle. Death must not be feared. Every man is frightened at first in battle. If he says he isnt, hes a goddamn liar. Some men are cowards, yes! But they fight just the same, or get the hell shamed out of them watching men who do fight who are just as scared. The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared. Some get over their fright in a minute under fire, some take an hour. For some it takes days. But the real man never lets fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to this country and his innate manhood.
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Oh, how I agree... :(
Which is strange considering that Buchanan himself is Catholic.
glad to be of some assistance.
It was the original Jack Nicholson, “YOU NEED ME ON THAT WALL!”
I actually haven’t really read into Patton’s direct bios, but from what I’ve read vie Omar Bradley etc, Patton was a lot showy-er than his men really appreciated.
He seemed to want to be Stonewall Jackson....but he never really commanded the same kind of adoration from his troops (that little mishap in Chancellorsville notwithstanding.)
Good post!
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If not for Churchill and Patton add some zeros to the number dead.
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I recommend Robert K. Wilcox, TARGET: PATTON--The Plot to ASSASSINATE General George S. Patton.
He really, really pissed off the red ring around Roosevelt and Truman, the Soviets especially Stalin (who put out a contract on him), and the OSS which was a great shadowy thing even then.
His remarks just prior to his very suspicious death December 1945 were prophetic and inflammatory.
He wasn't going to let Ike and Truman get off for allowing Stalin to enslave 20,000 U.S. and 20,000 British POWs as well as Eastern Europe.
Patton was too hot to keep in Europe, and too hot to let back in the States where he planned to run for the Senate.
Wilcox spent ten years producing his 444-page product with its incendiary hypothesis.
It's like Hussein's birth certificate. Are you going to believe David Axelrod or your lying eyes.
The Patton limousine in the Patton museum is not the limousine.
The five accident reports have disappeared.
The injury was suspicious and the recovery ended with his death on the eve of his release.
And Jack Ruby didn't get the seven kay from Dorfman for Hoffa for silencing Oswald--he did it to spare Jackie.
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