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Gen. George S. Patton III, the flamboyant field commander ... came to Boston to blast Kerry for "probably" causing "some of my guys to get killed" by his dissidence. "There's no soap ever been invented that can wash that blood off his hands."

All right, you have finally chosen a topic that has this old mans blood boiling. My staff has informed me that a bunch of politicians have asked the “United Nations” to monitor elections inside the United States. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE PULLING THIS HALF ASSED GENERALS LEG. * What are they going to “monitor?” Which dictator to vote for? Which tyrant or communist they want to win? HORSE DUNG!

Well, some snot nosed, wide assed, chicken livered politician asked me here today to speak on fighting a more “sensitive” war. Apparently there are some people in this world today that think we should be able to fight and win a war without hurting anyone’s feelings. NEVER IN MY LIFE HAVE I HEARD SUCH HORSE DUNG!! What kind of a half assed war are you fighting?

Major General George S. Patton, the son and namesake of the World War II armored commander was a veteran of combat in the Korean and Vietnam Wars. He was wounded in one of his three Vietnam tours and was awarded a Purple Heart. He was twice awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the second-highest decoration for bravery in combat. General Patton charged that he had experienced proof in the field that John F. Kerry's anti-war actions had given aid and comfort to the enemy, just as had those of Ramsey Clark and Jane Fonda. Mr. Kerry, said George Patton, probably...

LANGUAGE CAUTION! WHAT WOULD GENERAL PATTON SAY? If General Patton was alive today, what do you think he would say about the world situation? Interesting thought so I am going to speculate on what I think he might say.

The True Story of The Patton Prayer by Msgr. James H. O'Neill (From the Review of the News 6 October 1971) Many conflicting and some untrue stories have been printed about General George S. Patton and the Third Army Prayer. Some have had the tinge of blasphemy and disrespect for the Deity. Even in "War As I Knew It" by General Patton, the footnote on the Prayer by Colonel Paul D. Harkins, Patton's Deputy Chief of Staff, while containing the elements of a funny story about the General and his Chaplain, is not the true account of the prayer Incident...

Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. ...................................................................................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel...

WASHINGTON, June 29 - Maj. Gen. George S. Patton, the son and namesake of the World War II armored commander and a veteran of combat in the Korean and Vietnam Wars, died on Sunday at his home in Hamilton, Mass. He was 80. General Patton, who retired from the Army in 1980, had been in poor health for years because of complications from hip surgery and other ailments, his wife, Joanne, said. The younger General Patton was occasionally asked whether he felt overshadowed by his father, who gained fame for his exploits in North Africa, Sicily and France and who...

A General Patton's Address to the Troops, Part I, The Background Research Anyone who has ever viewed the motion picture PATTON will never forget the opening. George Campbell Scott, portraying Patton, standing in front of an immensely huge American flag, delivers his version of Patton's "Speech to the Third Army" on June 5th, 1944, the eve of the Allied invasion of France, code named "Overlord." Scott's rendition of the speech was highly sanitized so as not to offend too many fainthearted Americans. Luckily, the soldiers of the American Army who fought World War II were not so fainthearted. After one...

MARTIN ELLJMENSON is a contributing editor of ARMY Magazine. He is the editor of The Patton Papers and the author of Patton: The Man Behind the Legend, 1885-1945. When George C. Scott, in an Army uniform. bedecked with medals, appeared in front of that enormous American flag at the opening of the movie “Patton he sent an immediate message to his audience. He wanted everyone to know that he was portraying a legend. In Scott’s depiction from the beginning’ of the film., Gen. George S. Patton Jr. was a man larger than life, a mythical giant in American folk lore,...

Their names will ring through history: MacArthur, Patton, Eisenhower, Bradley, Nimitz, Halsey and many others. On the 60th anniversary of the great Allied invasion of Hitler’s Fortress Europe, the names of many of the U.S. lions of World War II are firmly and forever enshrined in our national pantheon of heroes. These great men were the progenitors of the Greatest Generation, the young men and women who sacrificed to win the war. Any thoughts of D-Day, of course, would be bare of essentials if not laced through and through with the contributions of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969), the man...

Patton's Fireside SpeechA non-partisan solution Rcvd in email - Author unknown If General George Patton were alive and President of the USA This would be his Fireside Speech: My fellow Americans: As you all know, the defeat of Iraq's regime has been completed. Since congress does not want to spend any more money on this war, our mission in Iraq is complete. This morning I gave the order for a complete removal of all American forces from Iraq. This action will be complete within 30 days. It is now time to begin the reckoning. Before me, I have two...

RINO: An acronym for "Republican In Name Only." A confused creature most commonly found in the United States Senate. For more information, see "Olympia Snowe," "Lincoln Chafee" and especially "Arlen Specter." At some point, George W. Bush and his chief political advisor, Karl Rove, apparently decided that supporting so-called "mainstream" Republicans, without regard to their political ideology, was a wise political strategy. I cannot imagine why, since their previous endorsements of liberal Republicans have been embarrassing disasters. They did it in the 2002 California governor's primary by endorsing former Los Angeles Mayor Richard Riordan, a pro-abortion, big-government liberal, over a...

Lord, Keep our Troops forever in Your care Give them victory over the enemy... Grant them a safe and swift return... Bless those who mourn the lost. . FReepers from the Foxhole join in prayer for all those serving their country at this time. ...................................................................................... ........................................... U.S. Military History, Current Events and Veterans Issues Where Duty, Honor and Countryare acknowledged, affirmed and commemorated. Our Mission: The FReeper Foxhole is dedicated to Veterans of our Nation's military forces and to others who are affected in their relationships with Veterans. In the FReeper Foxhole, Veterans or their family members should feel...

In an age where nuance and sensitivity in language are valued more than resoluteness on the battlefield, it is not an easy thing to praise the career of General George S. Patton. Despite his spectacular victories in North Africa, Sicily, and Europe, he left a depressing paper trail of grotesqueries about blacks, Jews, Asians, Mexicans, women—and almost anyone outside his WASPish class. Most Americans know more about his two slapping incidents in Sicily than his famous sprint to Bastogne during the dark days of the Battle of the Bulge. It won't quite do to say that Patton's outbursts (or his...

The first article I noticed on page one as I picked up my Sunday paper this week was about the ugly topic of child abuse. The headline read: "Cases Pile Up For Already Overworked Child Advocates." It told the sad tale of abused and neglected children in Omaha, Nebraska. It also detailed the day-to-day heartache of twenty full-time investigators who see their workload grow by five new cases each week, and for every case that is investigated, there are many that are not. In fact, the article estimated that an additional 6,000 reports should have been investigated from 1999 through...

If one accepts the view that the criteria for presidential greatness is the ability to confound one's political opponents by stealing their issues and outsmarting them at virtually every turn, then New York Post columnist and political author John Podhoretz makes a convincing case for the premise of his new book, "Bush Country - How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane." By that measure - from tax cuts to education reform to the war on terror to his domestic spending priorities to his mid-term election victories - if political success equals greatness, then George W. Bush is...

An Open Letter to Senator John Kerryon Iraqby S. Brian WillsonOctober 10, 2002 FROM: S. Brian Willson (bw@brianwillson.com)TO: John Kerry (john_kerry@kerry.senate.org) Dear John, It has been a long time since we have had contact. As you might remember, our very first meeting was at VVAW's Dewey Canyon III, "A Limited Incursion Into the Country of Congress," April 19-23, 1971, in Washington, D.C. I'm sure you remember asking the Senate that week in an impassioned speech, "How do you ask a man to die for a mistake?" You also stressed the importance of being "totally nonviolent." Our second and many subsequent...

On first reading, the opening paragraph of an Associated Press article this past weekend was too bizarre to comprehend: “KASSEL, Germany (AP) – A computer expert who killed, dismembered and ate another man was convicted Friday of manslaughter and sentenced to 8 ½ years in prison after a court rejected a murder charge because the victim had asked to be eaten.” As I read this story, I wondered how civilized people were supposed to process such information. Is this really the future of justice? Will common sense ever again prevail in a world where anything goes? Granted, the case in...