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note from CW. Perspectives, as usual, will be on a short break in order to accommodate the month-end inventory and subsequent reports. We will return later next week.
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George Smith Patton Jr. (1885 – 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885 to a family whose members had served in the United States and Confederate States armies, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known as the “Patton Saber”, and competed in the modern pentathlon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. An avid horseman, he won over 200 cups and ribbons in riding competitions. As commander of the U.S. Third Army, he drove deep into Germany, his forces inflicting eleven casualties for every one suffered of their own. Patton died in the fall of 1945 when a minor car accident en route to a Sunday pheasant hunt gave him a broken neck which resulted in his death less than two weeks later.
“If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”
“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.”
“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”
“A merely good plan violently executed now is far better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.”
“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one
thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the
body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.
It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is
never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger
the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was
never tired… You’ve always got to make the mind take over
and keep going.”
“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting .”
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George Smith Patton Jr. (1885 – 1945) was a general of the United States Army who commanded the U.S. Seventh Army in the Mediterranean theater of World War II, and the U.S. Third Army in France and Germany after the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944. Born in 1885 to a family whose members had served in the United States and Confederate States armies, Patton attended the Virginia Military Institute and the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. He studied fencing and designed the M1913 Cavalry Saber, more commonly known as the “Patton Saber”, and competed in the modern pentathlon in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden. An avid horseman, he won over 200 cups and ribbons in riding competitions. As commander of the U.S. Third Army, he drove deep into Germany, his forces inflicting eleven casualties for every one suffered of their own. Patton died in the fall of 1945 when a minor car accident en route to a Sunday pheasant hunt gave him a broken neck which resulted in his death less than two weeks later.
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- - - - - - -“It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.”
“The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”
“A merely good plan violently executed now is far better than a perfect plan executed at some indefinite time in the future.”
“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
“Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one
thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the
body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up.
It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is
never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger
the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was
never tired… You’ve always got to make the mind take over
and keep going.”
“For over a thousand years Roman conquerors returning from the wars enjoyed the honor of triumph, a tumultuous parade. In the procession came trumpeteers, musicians and strange animals from conquered territories, together with carts laden with treasure and captured armaments. The conquerors rode in a triumphal chariot, the dazed prisoners walking in chains before him. Sometimes his children robed in white stood with him in the chariot or rode the trace horses. A slave stood behind the conqueror holding a golden crown and whispering in his ear a warning: that all glory is fleeting .”