[dontreadthis]

on this Memorial Day

[GRRRRR]

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[BelegStrongbow]

Amen!

[Huskrrrr]

“The bilious bastards who write that kind of stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don’t know any more about real fighting under fire than they know about fucking!”

Still don’t.

[Twinkie]

My Daddy thought very highly of General Patton. He fought under him in N. Africa and Italy in the Army Infantry.

[ArmstedFragg]

Just as a matter of interest, Patton didn’t go into France until August first. He was leading the fictitous First Army in June and putting together the 3rd army, which was being shipped over from the U.S. On 6/4/44, he wrote his wife, “Don’t get excited when the whistle blows, I am not in the opening kickoff”.

The 6/5 speech was most likely the first time the 3rd army had been assembled en masse after arriving in England.

[ScreamingFist]

And here is General Patton giving that speech....;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyUX6wV1lBQ

[USMA '71]

I have carried this speech in my portfolio every day for the past twenty years. It always “gets my mind right” when I am having an otherwise bad day!

[CrazyIvan]

I am honored to have coffee with an old Third Army Vet once and awhile. He was a combat engineer and is very modest
about his service. He states that he never saw any real
combat, but that he blew the breaches on a lot of 88s and is
convinced that that saved some lives. DO NOT disparage the
US Army or Patton in his presence! I do not need to tell you
what he thinks of our latest CIC.