Oh yeah, I almost forgot: You magnificent b*stards.

Mad Ogre, And my opinion that MacArthur is an asshat came from having a Grandfather who fought in the pacific.

Oh man...the Patton song is in my head too, thanks to LarsThorwald.

General Patton was a very skilled tactician and motivator of men; however, one General that gets lost in the Patton, Eisenhower, McCarthur shuffle is General George C. Marshall. This man was was a motivator of men, a skilled tactician, well versed in policy and a General that other Generals feared. Marshall helped author the European Recovery Plan, i.e. the "Marshall Plan", he helped negotiate the Rio Pact Organization of American States, as the Secretary of State he convinced America to support creating and joining NATO, ... and not to mention he was the only serviceman to win the Nobel Peace Prize... this guy was a quiet giant, it's a shame he gets overlooked... you magnificient bastards.

Can't believe a badass like Patton died in a car accdient.

if your talking about great motivators you have to recongnize Gen. Leslie Groves he ran the manhatten project and built the pentagon. both done faster than anyone would have thought possible.

Prizrak You are so right....

About 5 Star General George C. Marshall


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Fark you people in the 21st Century looking down your noses at him for saying mean things. He was a man of action, not of words...an all too rare commodity these days. Yes, some of the ideas that people had back in the day were wrong and foolish. But these quotes were made back then, not now, and in my opinion there are a lot of things that we as a society have discarded because they aren't "popular" or "correct" or because they "offend" somebody that we possibly should have held on to. I'm definitely not saying racism is good; I think it sucks. All I'm saying is that we look back too often with an air of superiority that we don't deserve to have. We have the freedom to sit here and think up new "kinder", "gentler" labels for retards, gimps, and short people, and new policies for ramming "sensitivity towards others" down the populace's throat in the name of not offending anyone because of ruthless, rough-edged bastards like Patton who did what needed to be done because he knew it was right. We are edging ever-closer to a pacifist, Politically Correct Police State that would put hair back on Patton's head if he were alive to see it. Say what you will about him, the man knew what to do with despots and foreign powers bent on the destruction of America. Those involved in the socially redeeming "die-ins" and "vomit-ins" would do well to study him and his accomplishments.

05-23-03 03:35:28 PM Lord_Dubu

Thank you, Lord Dubu, you Magnificent Bastard, for noting the distinction.

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Here's mine.

Mondo-

Can't believe a badass like Patton died in a car accdient.

I met an old-timer at a party for a SECNAV swearing-in. He was OSS during WWII.

Patton's "accident" wasn't an accident, according to this guy.

Nabb1 Tactician that he was, Patton didn't know squat about convection.

"Better to fight for something than live for nothing." -- George S. Patton

God Bless you NoGods

www.sfmuseum.org/bio/sherman.html

or

www.chateau-lafayette.com/

Take your pic, you magnificent bastards

"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man."

"I'd rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me"

Sounds like Georgie had a pretty good handle on the French, didn't he?! Some things never change...

Men,

i'm very proud to've served with you on this historic day and to've witnessed the birth of the new cliche.

YOU MAGNIFICENT BASTARDS

God bless that insane warrior.

My Uncle Joe served under Patton in his push through Europe. He was a badass too.

On this Memorial Day I send a shout out to heaven for them both.

Thanks.

THE KING OF TOAST

Amen, you magnificent bastard

I loved the Brit officer, in the Arnhem attack, who when outnumbered and cut off, when the Germans sent over a flag of truce to discuss terms for surrender, sent it back, saying "Sorry, we can't take you all prisoner."
Definite Airborne attitude there.

"Fixed fortifications are monuments to the stupidity of man."

I lived in Belgium for two years when my Popz was stationed there at S.H.A.P.E. in Mons. The Maginot Line is quite that, a monument of a tremendous strategical failure. You can't drive 20 miles without seeing an abandoned pill-box out in the middle of some farmers beat-field.

oh, and for the un-bowdlerized version of the speech:

http://www.grantsmilitaria.com/html/spec_art/patton.htm

Brit, my guess is maginficent bastard is too long to fit in a tag. However there's nothing keeping it out of submitted thread titles (errr save for the admins... who by the way I hear are magnificent bastards)

I think my favorite general would probably be Zhukov. He studied armored warfare and drew up detailed plans ten years before anyone else, figured out how to move nearly 3/4 of his country's entire army five thousand miles across unreliable rail lines to defend against Germany, lifted the seige of Leningrad, and took Berlin at the end of the war. Oh, and he did it all without any significant industrial production from his home country until late in the war and without any competent subordinates, all of whom were killed in Stalin's purges ten years earlier (oops!).

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Props to Guy Innagorillasuit

"I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions."- Gen Omar N. Bradley

he died anyways.


he aint even buried in the US. he is buried in Luxembourg.

Wh*t's w*th *ll th* d*mned *ster*sks? Y*u c*n cl*arly t*ll wh*t th* w*rd *s *nyw*y, f*r chr*st s*kes.

That's why Americans have never lost nor will ever lose a war

sucks that americans lost vietnam something fierce..

*coming from a canadian whose country hasnt been involved in any serious conflict since wwii*

Patton was full of shiat.

Is there some language dialect thing I missed? Doesn't spelling bastard "b*tard" as everyone is leave one letter unaccounted for?

Fooz
sucks that americans lost vietnam something fierce..

"Shut up! We did not lose Vietnam...it was a tie!"

anyone care to guess the movie...

OK, what the hell

Most Magnificent bastards

Revolutionary War: 'Mad' Anthony Wayne
(sorry, no traitors on my list)

1812: Andrew Jackson

Civil War: William Tecumseh Sherman

Dubu, and other farks-

The Air Farce doesn't need some catch-phrased cliche of a battle cry...we think the sound of a largish bomb hitting the ground at a hundred miles an hour, followed by the ensuing explosion, does nicely.

/amused

Pretty funny that those who revel in the man's love of killing and bloodshed cannot even bring themselves to type the word 'bastard.' Oh heavens! The children, obviously you are thinking of the children.

Patton...wow I can't put into words the excellence this man had. GIJoe ain't the real american hero...he is

MonkeyButler

no idea, but yes you did have your anus handed to you rather well, by dirty communists mind you

FLCJR42

My Uncle Joe served under Patton in his push through Europe. He was a badass too.

Very good. One grandfather in Europe, another in the Pacific -- Iwo Jima, no less, dad in 'Nam...

Hell, someone in the family tree fought the Brits back in the day.

If I did a shot of Jack for every family member who served...hell, that sounds like good idea!

Just not right now.

My granddaddy served in the Pacific, and he hated MacArthur. Apparently a good deal of the army didn't find "I shall return" that inspiring.

"Shut up! We did not lose Vietnam...it was a tie!"

anyone care to guess the movie...

A Fish Called Wanda

Fooz
*coming from a canadian whose country hasnt been involved in any serious conflict since wwii*

Rub our faces in it, why don't you?

but about Patton, I had a French teacher (a German) who was a great admirer of Patton. She said he was quite the art lover, and would make a point to secure and protect paintings, stainded glass windows, etc. as he mowed his bloody path across Europe.

"The quicker we clean up this goddmn mess, the quicker we can take a jaunt against the purple pissing Japs an clean their nest out too, before the Marines get all the goddmn credit"

HOO-ah! This man got shiat DONE

And for the record I would STILL rather have a German army in front of me than a French army behind me.

Take that Gwinny!

"Magnificent! Compared to war all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so!" -- George S. Patton