“In response to criticisms of his coarse language, Patton wrote to a family member, “When I want my men to remember something important, to really make it stick, I give it to them double dirty. It may not sound nice to a bunch of little old ladies, at an afternoon tea party, but it helps my soldiers to remember. You can’t run an army without profanity, and it has to be eloquent profanity. An army without profanity couldn’t fight its way out of a piss-soaked paper bag.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton’s_speech_to_the_Third_Army
Thank you for that “historical” insight.
Love it!!
Excellent!!!
Patton used to sprinkle every conversation with profanities.
When Bradley once commented on it Patton smiled at him and said “GD it Brad, sometimes I just get carried away with my own F’n eloquence.”