To: pissant
To: traderrob6
I still get pumped up every time I read it. I think most real Americans do.
4 posted on
06/04/2008 5:32:55 PM PDT by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: traderrob6; pissant; prolifefirst
Patton would've been kicked out of today's PC military....
Even worse for him was the "slapping incident", which occurred on August 3, 1943[7] that nearly ended Patton's career. The matter became known after newspaper columnist Drew Pearson revealed it on his November 21 radio program, reporting that General Patton had been "severely reprimanded" as a result.[8] Allied Headquarters denied that Patton had been reprimanded, but confirmed that Patton had slapped a soldier.
According to witnesses, General Patton was visiting patients at a military hospital in Sicily, and came upon a 24-year old soldier who was weeping. Patton asked "What's the matter with you?" and the soldier replied, "It's my nerves, I guess. I can't stand shelling." Patton "thereupon burst into a rage" and "employing much profanity, he called the soldier a 'coward'" and ordered him back to the front. As a crowd gathered, including the hospital's commanding officer, the doctor who had admitted the soldier, and a nurse, Patton then "struck the youth in the rear of the head with the back of his hand". Reportedly, the nurse "made a dive toward Patton, but was pulled back by a doctor" and the commander intervened. Patton went to other patients, then returned and berated the soldier again.[9
19 posted on
06/04/2008 5:46:48 PM PDT by
sam_paine
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