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The quotes that follow are of George S. Patton:
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country
[Part of a speech given to soldiers prior to D-Day]
There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, "Well, your Granddaddy shoveled sh*t in Louisiana." No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, "Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a-Goddamned-Bitch named Georgie Patton!"
[Excerpt from a prayer to God during the Battle of the Bulge]
?Sir, I have never been unreasonable man, I am not going to ask you for the impossible? all I request is four days of clear weather? so that my fighter-bombers can bomb and strafe, so that my reconnaissance may pick out targets for my magnificent artillery. Give me four days of sunshine to dry this blasted mud? I need these four days to send von Rundstedt and his godless army to their Valhalla. I am sick of the unnecessary butchery of American youth, and in exchange for four days of fighting weather, I will deliver You enough Krauts to keep Your bookkeepers months behind in their work. Amen.?
[Excerpt from a lecture]
"The way most new soldiers use their rifles, they are of no more use than a pecker is to the Pope"
Just thought I might be able to cheer some of you up a little
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country
[Part of a speech given to soldiers prior to D-Day]
There is one great thing that you men will all be able to say after this war is over and you are home once again. You may be thankful that twenty years from now when you are sitting by the fireplace with your grandson on your knee and he asks you what you did in the great World War II, you WON'T have to cough, shift him to the other knee and say, "Well, your Granddaddy shoveled sh*t in Louisiana." No, Sir, you can look him straight in the eye and say, "Son, your Granddaddy rode with the Great Third Army and a Son-of-a-Goddamned-Bitch named Georgie Patton!"
[Excerpt from a prayer to God during the Battle of the Bulge]
?Sir, I have never been unreasonable man, I am not going to ask you for the impossible? all I request is four days of clear weather? so that my fighter-bombers can bomb and strafe, so that my reconnaissance may pick out targets for my magnificent artillery. Give me four days of sunshine to dry this blasted mud? I need these four days to send von Rundstedt and his godless army to their Valhalla. I am sick of the unnecessary butchery of American youth, and in exchange for four days of fighting weather, I will deliver You enough Krauts to keep Your bookkeepers months behind in their work. Amen.?
[Excerpt from a lecture]
"The way most new soldiers use their rifles, they are of no more use than a pecker is to the Pope"
Just thought I might be able to cheer some of you up a little
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