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Patton, accompanied by ten soldiers of the 6th Infantry Regiment, killed two Mexican leaders, including “General” Julio Cardenas, commander of Villa’s personal bodyguard.

Standing in a dusty street, aiming and firing like a gunslinger, which he probably would have been if he had been born 30 years earlier. Then he tied the bodies to the front of his staff car like dead deer and carted them back to base as trophies.

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Standing in a dusty street, aiming and firing like a gunslinger,
which he probably would have been if he had been born 30 years
earlier. Then he tied the bodies to the front of his staff car
like dead deer and carted them back to base as trophies.

Great end to a great tale.

And I'm not ignorant of the personal sacrifice by the men that
served under Patton.

The QUIETIST co-worker I ever had was a lady I worked with during
the mid-1970s.

Once the topic of warfare came up.
She mentioned that she and her sister were strongly encouraged
by their mother to "be quiet".

Because their father, who served under Patton in WWII...
came home with what many (if not most) Americans would recognize
as PTSD.

She said that even a modest neighborhood sound (car back-fire)
would set her father into an involuntary quivering fit with
a primal look of fear on his face.
That would not subside until 15 min to 2 hours had passed.