Patton on Profanity and Prayer (Part One – Profanity

The Real Revo ^ | 9 Jan 10

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Part One is exactly as advertised. If you are going to be offended by Profanity go read something else. There, I've done my part.

Profanity serves a purpose in the military. General Patton explained; "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 some 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 it's way out of a piss-soaked paper bag."

"Men, this stuff that some sources sling around about America wanting out of this war, not wanting to fight, is a crock of bullshit. Americans love to fight, traditionally. All real Americans love the sting and clash of battle. You are here today for three reasons. First, because you are here to defend your homes and your loved ones. Second, you are here for your own self respect, because you would not want to be anywhere else. Third, you are here because you are real men and all real men like to fight. When you, here, everyone of you, were kids, you all admired the champion marble player, the fastest runner, the toughest boxer, the big league ball players, and the All-American football players. Americans love a winner. Americans will not tolerate a loser. Americans despise cowards. Americans play to win all of the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in hell for a man who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war; for the very idea of losing is hateful to an American."

"Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men. One of the bravest men that I ever saw was a fellow on top of a telegraph pole in the midst of a furious fire fight in Tunisia. I stopped and asked what the hell he was doing up there at a time like that. He answered, "Fixing the wire, Sir". I asked, "Isn't that a little unhealthy right about now?" He answered, "Yes Sir, but the Goddamned wire has to be fixed". I asked, "Don't those planes strafing the road bother you?" And he answered, "No, Sir, but you sure as hell do!" Now, there was a real man. A real soldier. There was a man who devoted all he had to his duty, no matter how seemingly insignificant his duty might appear at the time, no matter how great the odds". ...snip....

[inpajamas]

yeah!!! Right on !!! and to all the little children in America too !!!! They need to suck it up and get over it !!!

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Profane General Daniel Morgan, backwoodsman, was the victor at Cowpens, "Furthermore, its strategic result—the destruction of an important part of the British army in the South—was incalculable toward ending the war. Along with the British defeat at the Battle of Kings Mountain, Cowpens was a serious blow to Cornwallis, who might have defeated much of the remaining resistance in South Carolina had Tarleton won at Cowpens. Instead, the battle set in motion a series of events leading to the end of the war"

Morgan’s fiery temper was legendary and his confrontations with those whom he deemed had wronged him fearful to behold. Both within the army and without, “Old Morgan” was not a man to cross. As late as 1794 when called out by Governor Lee to lead Virginia troops in subduing the Whiskey Rebellion, Morgan solved a problem of overcharging by a tavern keeper quickly and directly—he “broke the mouth” of the offending merchant. Morgan was almost 60.

Morgan seldom spoke at councils of war, either when summoned by Arnold on the weary trek to Quebec or by Horatio Gates before Saratoga’s fateful assaults. He may have felt his opinion would be of little value to men of such superior social and educational status, but more likely deemed himself too inarticulate to express his viewpoint in a genteel manner. For his natural expression was loud, profane, and overpowering. But he proved beyond question at Cowpens that, given a set of circumstances and left to his own resources, somewhere in that quick mind he had mastered the tactical art of war.

Keeping the Pulse of the Men

His uncanny ability to communicate with the common soldier further enhanced Morgan as a military captain to be followed and obeyed by individualistic men who respected few authorities. Morgan possessed that unusual ability to mix freely with common soldiers using nicknames in a familiar context, yet without endangering the respect necessary for command. He drew from these highly independent men a concerted performance unequalled by any other American revolutionary leader and by few of any era.

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Stay away from an Army or Marine combat unit.

You’ll definitely be offended.

[inpajamas]

Trump isn’t pure Patton though; he is more like Patton meets Larry Flynt.

[VanDeKoik]

Many folks here need to listen to this scene, and get a clue that this wussy approach to political war is how you buy a one-way ticket home in November.

ALEC BALDWIN GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS ALWAYS BE CLOSING FULL SPEECH

(For those that need a “trigger warning”, it has lots of “bad words”)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PE2hSqVnk

[Marie]

It’s not 1776.

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See #22

[Mr Ramsbotham]

"Men ... you too, Kowalski ... tomorrow we hit the beaches. That is, you'll be hitting the beaches ... actually, I'll be hitting the beaches too ... at Brighton! But that's not important! What's important is that I'll be right here, cheering you all the way! And remember, don't die for your country, make the other bastard die for his! Now go out there and win one for the Gipper!"

[Marie]

You’d better stay out of my army towns, lady. We have a shortage of fainting couches.

[Marie]

She also better stay off of oil rigs and towers. And fishing boats and electrical lines.

I hate snotty people like this.

For the last week, I’ve been trying to regain some of my inner peace and taken a little news break.

This morning I find myself pretty damn offended by the ‘holier than thou’ attitude crawling over FR. I’m a soldiers wife - done the job for a quarter century - and the best, strongest, most honorable, bravest men that I know use f*** like a comma. (Nobody can swear as creatively as a first sergeant.)

So every person calling Trump names for cussing is inadvertently insulting 90% of our fighting force and the majority of the hard working men who do the jobs that allow the rest of us to live ‘civilized’ lives.

I do NOT see cussing as a ‘sin’. GOSSIP is a sin.

[trisham]

Language Warning for the faint of heart


" The quicker we clean up this Goddamned mess,
the quicker we can take a little jaunt against the purple pissing Japs and clean out their nest, too.
Before the Goddamned Marines get all of the credit. ."

General George S. Patton

address to the troops
somewhere in England, June 5, 1944

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[TornadoAlley3]

LOL. Holier than thou fainters are going to be decapitated first by ISIS. They prefer that to Trump's potty mouth.

[trisham]

"Hell, these are Marines.
Men like them held Guadalcanal and took Iwo Jima.
Bagdad ain't shit."

Marine Major General John F. Kelly

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[trisham]

"Of all the many talks I had in Washington, none gave me such pleasure as that with you. There were two reasons for this. In the first place, you are about my oldest friend. In the second place, your self-assurance and to me, at least, demonstrated ability, give me a great feeling of confidence about the future

-and I have the utmost confidence that through your efforts we will eventually beat the hell out of those bastards -

"You name them; I'll shoot them!"

General George S. Patton

Letter to Dwight D. Eisenhower (1942)

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[biff]

Yep, and donnie uses it to denigrate, belittle and insult, a childish trait among people that have a limited vocabulary.

[rlmorel]

Patton was a fascinating man.

He was a bundle of contradictions and contrasting interests. I have read a few biographies on the man, and is one of the most complex and interesting personalities I have ever heard of.

Sane, crazy, out of control, sublimely controlled, educated, coarse, erudite, illiterate, prudish, lusty, fearless, terrified, passionatly empathetic, brutally unfeeling, all living in some kind of bizzare harmony inside the same skin.

A flawed man, and a perfect warrior.

I admire the man.

[Larry Lucido]

But, but....Patton! Patton!

:-)

[Dr. Sivana]

When half the cable television channels are constantly pumpingout programming where f-bombs are used as every part of speech, the effectiveness of profanity, elegant or otehrwise, is badly blunted.

[Larry Lucido]

I agree. I have heard some say he would have made a horrible president. I have no way of knowing one way or another.

I do know that there is nothing in Patton’s biographies about him seeking to avoid military service. Quite the opposite, I hear. :-)

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Cruz’s father went to Canada at the height of the Vietnam War in 1969 and returned just as it ended in 1975.

He was born to a foreigner NOT LOYAL to the USA.