“I detested Patton and everything about the way he was. It was because we had so few soldiers like him that we won the war. Patton was the kind of officer that our wartime enlisted men were smarter than. It was the independent action of the average GI that made our Army so successful, not the result of the kind of blind, thoughtless devotion to the next higher authority that Patton demanded.”
Andy Rooney to Carlo D’Este, 1995
Geez..... That’s lovely from Rooney....
Ruth Ellen Patton