[w_over_w]

Evening Grace Snip & Sam~

Wonderful read about Winters.

An officer who best personified Ike's dictum of optimism and courage was Capt. Richard Winters, commanding Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II.

One of my favorite quotes about optimism:

I am an optimist . . . is there a choice?
~Winston Churchill~

Hey . . . gotta question. Last night we were watching the DVD my daughter gave me for Christmas . . . "Patton" (great kid huh!). Anyway, there's a scene just prior to the Sicily invasion wherein Patton and his staff are wearing a patch that looks like a Second Armored Division patch but it had a gold "A" in the center of the triangle. Now Patton was in charge of the Seventh Division during the Sicily campaign and this clearly WAS NOT the "seven steps to hell" patch. Was there a triangular patch in the blue, red and yellow colors with a gold "A" in the middle? Or was that a Hollywood gaff. I got asked during the movie and all I could say was . . . "ugh, dunno". [good answer Dad]

[snippy_about_it]

Evening w over w. I'll leave that question for Sam. ;-)

[SAMWolf]

I'm not familiar with the patch. I'll have to go through some books I have and see if I can find anything.

You already said it wasn't the 7th Army patch, I'm wondering if it was one of the Corps patches.