Posted on 09/03/2018 9:29:11 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Sorta like we did in Iraq and Afghanistan?
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Brother, I support that 100%.
LOL, truer words were never spoken.
the story in my family is: my g’father rode with Pershing chasin Villa.
He would never talk of it or his WW1 combat experience (he suffered from mustard gas exposure).
The stories about him were even more incredible.
What I do remember is, he was a 5 foot nuthin irishman where people stepped aside when he walked by.
Add - Promotion was to 1st Lt., not Captain.
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I knew that but didn’t mention it. You also seem to know something about Patton. There are a few of us around.
To whom did Patton send his notes from when he attended the Army War College?
A little, but enough to know that those who think Patton was without military fault probably got most of their knowledge from the movie, and never spent much time looking at his campaign in Lorraine.
I found the story revealing about him being kicked in the head by a horse while playing polo, and while completely concussed the next week or so, sailed his family on a sailboat from California to Hawaii.
He had not recollection of the journey!
I hope I remembered that right, I read that story some years ago.
Just an astonishing man.
Yes, Metz, for instance, was not one of his best.
I found the story revealing about him being kicked in the head by a horse while playing polo,....
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For that reason Patton quit playing polo in 1940. He didn’t want to risk getting hurt and missing the impending war.
I have a guess, but I'd have to look it up. My guess, and only a guess, is Ike. But since he was well traveled and well connected, I could be pretty far off base.
I must have had this story wrong...I remembered this as having happened far earlier than it did...I thought it was around 1901 or something like that, but it took place in 1916, so I must have it wrong...
Good guess and right on. Ike never expressed much gratitude to Patton for not only that but other things, including the Bulge.
“Mexico needs a Constitution, Bill of Rights, individual property rights, breakup of monopolies, destruction of narco gangs, and cleanup of corruption.”
Have you read Michener on former Spanish colonies?
They don’t even understand what you mean by “stop corruption.”
There is a lot about Paton that most people don’t know. For example he started the first tank training school for the US military in France of all places (using 22 tanks supplied by the French because the US had no tanks to speak of), and was instrumental in sitting up the US tanks corps which he led to battle in WWI.
Mexico is no Japan. Destroying the narco gangs alone will take 50 years and cost us hundreds of billions of dollars and tens of thousands dead. Them m’f’kers have hundreds of billions of dollars and are armed to the teeth. Not worth it.
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