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Posted on 07/15/2012 4:59:20 PM PDT by Kathy in Alaska
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My father’s oldest brother (uncle Tom) went to the Mexican Expedition with Pershing in 1916. One of his favorite stories was the time Lt. Patten accompanied a mess truck into a village to buy fresh produce. Patten asked a few locals if they had seen Villa or any of his bandits. A villager pointed out one who was robbing markets. Patten confronted the bandit, the bandit began to run away and Patten shot him in the leg and returned his revolver to his holster. The bandit rolled over and looked at Patten and started to draw his pistol. Patten actually waited for him to clear the holster and outdrew him and shot again.
Thanks, Galz, for sharing the story of this bigger-than-life hero!
It would take a year of threads to tell all of it. :)...but
ya did good!
Wow! I had never heard that one! Quite a character!
Good evening, ken....thanks for your quote.
Good evening, Sand...((HUGS))...hope you boys had a nice day...maybe a mugging or two?
Dr. Deb Roy, a researcher and cognitive scientist with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, recorded the first 3 years of his child’s life to learn how humans acquire language. He and his wife rigged their home with recording devices, which they used to collect over 200,000 hours of audio and video footage. Amassing, condensing, and editing the recordings enabled them to hear baby sounds like “gaga” evolve into words like “water.”
If someone wanted to conduct a research project at your home, would you participate if you knew that your every syllable would be recorded and analyzed? What would the study reveal? Proverbs 18 offers insight about some unwise speech patterns. The writer notes that foolish people express their own opinions instead of trying to understand what others have to say (v.2). Does this characterize us? Do we sometimes provoke fights with our words (v.7), or speak impulsively and “answer a matter before [hearing] it”? (v.13).
We need to become students of our speech. With God’s help we can identify and transform destructive dialogue into words of encouragement that are “good for necessary edification” and that “impart grace to the hearers” (Eph. 4:29).
Read: Proverbs 18:1-15
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Good evening, CVV....so many of our past heroes have to be spinning at what has happened to their hard fought and won freedoms.
Quite the character was Gen Patton. Good evening, Publius...((HUGS))
He made sure you knew exactly what he meant. Thanks, Delta 21.
Welcome to the Canteen, bill1952...thanks for the quote.
This Cav Tanker thanks God we had him when we needed him.
Thanks for keeping the Canteen going !! I lurk in here most every day. Tonk would be proud.
Evening, Kathy. Patton was truly a colorful, larger-than-life character.
LOL! Putting it mildly.
Thanks...we do our best. Tonk is missed.
September 12, 1918 was just another day like so many other days during World War I. On that nondescript day an event would take place that at the time drew little or no attention in the grand scheme of things. The fighting was heavy between the American Expeditionary Force and the German Army.
The 327th Tank Battalion was commanded by a thirty-two year old lieutenant colonel wearing a Colt .45 pistol with an ivory grip and his engraved initials. A graduate of West Point with nine years of military service behind him, this was his first taste of battle!
The 42nd “Rainbow” Division was commanded by a thirty-eight year old brigadier general wearing a barracks cap and a muffler his mother knitted for him with a pipe in his mouth. Also a graduate of West Point, he had fifteen years of military service. He had been in combat for about 5 or 6 months.
The Tank Commanmder was suposed to provide support for the Infantry Commander. He was frustrated because his tanks’ progress kept being hampered by terrain and weather. Both men were participating in The St. Mihiel Offensive to reenforece the American lines. Their joint venture was a first for the Amrican Army as a solo venture.
Both were headed for Essey, France. The Tank Commander was approaching a hill to check out the progress of his tank movements. As he approached a hill he saw the Infantry Commander standing on the hill overlooking his troops. The younger man approached the older man. As the two took measure of each other the Germans fired an artillery barrage that passed directly overhead. The troops of both commanders ran and dove for cover. The two Commanders stood their ground as they exchanged words.
To this day no one knows for sure what Lt.Colonel George Patton and Brigadier General Douglas MacArthur said to each other on that day as they stood firmly in place on that hill in the midst of a German artillery barrage. Over the decades, many have speculated and tried to uncover their conversation. I prefer to belive that the words Patton wrote to his wife in a letter four [4] days later was probably closer to the truth of the matter as any other.
Patton told his wife that when the barrage sttarted as they stood on that hill, his reaction was to duck for cover. However he refused to budge until MacAtrthur did the same. But Patton could see in the General’s eyes that he was thinking the same thing. So, they both stood their ground. They exchanged a few words, then very deliberately and casually walked back to their respective units.
Of course we all know that General Patton and General MacArthur were both symbols of bravery and leadership under fire. Both were highly decorated soldiers. Both were the type of leader whose men would follow them anywhere. When General Patton was killed, over 20,000 men volunteered to be “pall bearers”at his funeral.
September 12, 1918 during combat of World War I was “the only” time these two very famous heroes ever met personally. This story can be found at the Army Historical Foundation. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. You can read the entire account at the link provided.
Good evening, Seven....
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event's military roots garnered a more appropriate weapon, the .38. During the competition Patton was docked for missing the target, though he contended the lost bullet had simply passed through a large opening created by previous rounds from the .38, which left considerably larger holes. 
border where he led routine cavalry patrols. A year later, he accompanied Pershing as an aide on his expedition against Francisco "Pancho" Villa into Mexico. Patton gained recognition from the press for his attacks on several of Villa's men.
Congress, however, was not willing to appropriate funds to build a large armored force. Even so, Patton studied, wrote extensively and carried out experiments to improve radio communications between tanks. He also helped invent the co-axial tank mount for cannons and machine guns.
the Third Army in France. Patton and his troops dashed across Europe after the battle of Normandy and exploited German weaknesses with great success, covering the 600 miles across France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Germany, Austria and Czechoslovakia. When the Third Army liberated the Buchenwald concentration camp, Patton slowed his pace. He instituted a policy, later adopted by other commanders, of making local German civilians tour the camps. By the time WWII was over, the Third Army had liberated or conquered 81,522 square miles of territory.
