HB George Patton, Jr., born November 11, 1885
SteveMR200
a human being can indulge. It brings out all that
is best; it removes all that is base.
--George S. Patton, Jr. (1885-1945)
(In a message to his troops, 1943)
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Steve
PollyC
The glory of the skyrocket elicits our applause, the splash of it's
charred stick is unnoticed.
~General George S.Patton in Charles M. Province, The Unknown Patton
[1983]
//PollyC
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Africa and liberate Sicily during World War II
believed he'd fought in North Africa and Sicily
centuries before.
A staunch believer in reincarnation, Patton claimed
to have fought during the Punic Wars, as both a
Roman legionnaire and as the Carthaginian general
Hannibal.
It could have been worse, though. Just imagine what
could have happened to the Allied war effort if he'd
spent all his past lives gardening.
--Kelly Ferguson, Jeff Fleischer, et al.
_Mental Floss Magazine_ [Sep/Oct 2006],
"College: Selecting Your Major"
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Steve
** Stunning Celeste **
> A staunch believer in reincarnation, Patton claimed
> to have fought during the Punic Wars, as both a
> Roman legionnaire and as the Carthaginian general
> Hannibal.
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Not just ANY Roman Legionnaire...
...
Perhaps I stabbed our Savior
In His sacred helpless side.
Yet I've called His name in blessing
When in after times I died.
~George S. Patton Jr., poem, "Through a Glass Darkly," (1922)
( in D'Este, Patton A Genius for War)
And who is he now??
So forever in the future
Shall I battle as of yore,
Dying to be born a fighter
But to die again once more.
~ibid
//** Stunning Celeste **
SteveMR200
message: <8G36h.64050$rP1....@news-server.bigpond.net.au>:
>On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 03:00:00 -0800, SteveMR200 wrote in message:
><dtvdl2l2g4oahqj2n...@4ax.com>:
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>> A staunch believer in reincarnation, Patton claimed
>> to have fought during the Punic Wars, as both a
>> Roman legionnaire and as the Carthaginian general
>> Hannibal.
>> --Kelly Ferguson, Jeff Fleischer, et al.
>> _Mental Floss Magazine_ [Sep/Oct 2006],
>> "College: Selecting Your Major"
>_____________________________
>
>Not just ANY Roman Legionnaire...
>
>...
>
>Perhaps I stabbed our Savior
>In His sacred helpless side.
>Yet I've called His name in blessing
>When in after times I died.
>~George S. Patton Jr., poem, "Through a Glass Darkly," (1922)
>( in D'Este, Patton A Genius for War)
>
> And who is he now??
>
>So forever in the future
>Shall I battle as of yore,
>Dying to be born a fighter
>But to die again once more.
>~ibid
>
>
>//** Stunning Celeste **
>
>
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And who is he now, you ask? I find this entire
thread about General George Patton and reincarnation
rather puzzling. 0>
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Stole many a man's soul and faith.
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I stuck around St. Petersburg,
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Anastasia screamed in vain.
I rode a tank,
Held a general's rank;
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--The Rolling Stones
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(Lyrics by (Mick Jagger and Keith Richards)
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Steve
SteveMR200
<6nvcl2pcilvle0kkl...@4ax.com>:
the fame of conquerors but the reek of manslaughter?
--Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)
_The Treasury Of David_ [1892]
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Steve
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-- _David's Sling_, Marc Stiegler
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and
patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. When a people are used as mere human
instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of
a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical
injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war,
carried on for an honest purpose by their own free choice--is often the means of their regeneration.
A man who has nothing which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety is a
miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the existing of
better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing
fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do
battle for the one against the other.
--John Stuart Mill, "The Contest in America," pp. 208-09, in John Stuart Mill, Dissertations and
Discussions [Fraser's magazine, January, 1862] (Boston: William V. Spencer, 1867).
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"Tam multi libri, tam breve tempus!"
(Et brevis pecunia.) [Et breve spatium.]
SteveMR200
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QdR7yieQdoo
ObQuote:
Haul up the flag, you mourners,
Not half-mast but all the way;
The funeral is done and disbanded;
The devil's had the final say.
--Karl Shapiro (1913-2000)
_Elegy for Two Banjos_
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Steve
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war I would secure supreme command and such fame
that after the war I would be able to become
president or dictator by the ballot or by force.
In that case we would not have needed a house for we
would have persuaded a grateful people to build us a
marble Palace at the flag pole at Fort Myer.
However, as I approach [the age of] 41 and there is
no war I almost doubt the Palace, and fear that I
shall live to retire a useless soldier.
--George S. Patton, Jr. (1885-1945)
Have You Seen Me?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton
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Steve
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trudged toward the southern tip of the salient in a
driving rain, and the following night they entered
the trenches.
At daybreak fourteen hundred planes, led by Billy
Mitchell, scouted enemy positions and a wedge of
tanks, commanded by George S. Patton [Jr.], lumbered
into position while MacArthur told his men what was
expected of them.
It was, by the standards of the western front, a
great deal: five miles of gains on the first day and
four miles on the second.
At "H" hour, 5:00 a.m. the next day, MacArthur was
the first man to leap over the parapet and lead the
84th's assault columns toward the enemy's works.
How seriously the Germans meant to defend the
salient is a matter of some controversy; afterward
they said they had been preparing to withdraw
anyway, but captured orders seemed to contradict
that.
In any event, MacArthur's Iowans and Alabamans
quickly overran their objectives, despite the fact
that Major Patton's tanks, in MacArthur's words,
"Soon bogged down in . . . mud."
Being the men they were, a macho duel between the
two was inevitable. It came in the midst of enemy
shellfire. Both stood erect, eyeing each other as
the crumps crept closer.
According to Patton, "We stood and talked but
neither was much interested in what the other said
as we could not get our minds off the shells."
According to MacArthur, Patton flinched at one point
and then looked annoyed with himself, whereupon the
brigadier said dryly, "Don't worry, major; you never
hear the one that gets you."
--William Manchester (1922-2004)
_American Caesar_ [1978], "Charge: (1917-1918)"
Have You Seen Me?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S._Patton
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Steve