'peculiar as hell'About 20 years ago, I was on a hunting trip. I had been out that morning hunting, didn't have any luck and afterwards drove into a small town for lunch. The mom and pop restaurant was the type where you didn't have a table to yourself but rather, you had a seat at a table.
An older man sat across from me and we struck up a conversation. He said he served in the 3rd Army and in the course of our conversation told me something about the general that was 'peculiar as hell'.
Well, don't keep us in suspense!
Best comment ever on Patton, by Bill Mauldin:
Caption: "Radio th' ol' man we'll be late on account of a thousand-mile detour."
Dad knew Bill Mauldin, who was quite a character in his own right. When he was so sick out west in California, a columnist for the Orange County newspaper put out the call for veterans to write Mauldin because letters and cards from vets were the only thing that cheered him up. Dad and one of his army buddies (they live just a few miles apart) sent Mauldin a card and some old pictures.