Another great follow up question for him. "So a general spending time composing poetry would be a woke problem the US shouldn't tolerate?" "Ever hear of General Patton?"
Another great follow up question for him. "So a general spending time composing poetry would be a woke problem the US shouldn't tolerate?" "Ever hear of General Patton?"
Pretty sure Trump has referenced him. Its a really good movie, and he makes for a easy hero to lionize, especially since he died before he could really go off the deep end (and he probably would have).
I've got a dozens of WW2 books, including 4 on Patton (including his diary). Yeah, once the war ended, he was getting close. The world he knew was going/gone, and his brand of soldier wasn't part of what was coming. The movie - mixed feelings about it. His accomplishments were, I think, somewhat minimized and his defects oddly glossed over or exaggerated. The man who was a poet, who knew art and beauty, and actually cried in hospitals talking to the wounded and in public, even in the midst of the war was missing. Just saw a current 2-hr documentary by Morgan Freeman on the History Channel on the 761st all black tank battalion and Patton actually did them proud. If you haven't seen it, highly recommended. (Saw it twice.) It's available on demand, at least on DirecTV.
Another great follow up question for him. "So a general spending time composing poetry would be a woke problem the US shouldn't tolerate?" "Ever hear of General Patton?"
All falls apart when he says, "No, who's that?"
I would love it if he actually said that. I find myself wondering how many of today's Rs know who Patton is.
Pretty sure Trump has referenced him. Its a really good movie, and he makes for a easy hero to lionize, especially since he died before he could really go off the deep end (and he probably would have).
I've got a dozens of WW2 books, including 4 on Patton (including his diary). Yeah, once the war ended, he was getting close. The world he knew was going/gone, and his brand of soldier wasn't part of what was coming. The movie - mixed feelings about it. His accomplishments were, I think, somewhat minimized and his defects oddly glossed over or exaggerated. The man who was a poet, who knew art and beauty, and actually cried in hospitals talking to the wounded and in public, even in the midst of the war was missing. Just saw a current 2-hr documentary by Morgan Freeman on the History Channel on the 761st all black tank battalion and Patton actually did them proud. If you haven't seen it, highly recommended. (Saw it twice.) It's available on demand, at least on DirecTV.