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underpants

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Fri Nov-09-07 10:42 AM
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Patton quote

"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."
- George S. Patton, U.S. Army General and 1912 Olympian

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Parche

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Fri Nov-09-07 12:01 PM
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1. Admiral Halsey

"Before we are through with them, the Japanese language will be spoken only in HELL"

"Attack, Repeat Attack"

"Jesus Christ and General Jackson, that is the hottest potato they have ever handed me"

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"Shoot the Sonzabitches"
"Tenacity Dick, stay with them until the bastard is on the bottom"
Commander DW Morton USS Wahoo

:hi:

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Sequoia

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Fri Nov-09-07 12:11 PM
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3. I just read that "Jesus Christ and General Jackson...." quote

in the book "Left to Die" which I'm reading right now. He said that in reference to his being handed the whole pacific fleet. I used to wonder what Paul McCartney and Wing's song: "Hands Across the Water" about Admiral Halsey was about. It was on of my favorite songs from that time.

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Parche

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Fri Nov-09-07 12:41 PM
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8. Halsey

When he landed in the South Pacific at that time, he thought he was just going for
a review of the forces there, he was then handed this from Admiral Nimitz, and he
then replaced Vice Admiral Ghormley, for command of the South Pacific area..........:hi:

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underpants

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Fri Nov-09-07 12:56 PM
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10. From "Fiasco" Marine General Mattis

Marine Major General James Mattis

"Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everybody you meet,"

"The first time you blow someone away is not an insignificant event," he told 200 Marines at a one session in al Asad. "That said, there are some assholes in the world that just need to be shot. There are hunters and there are victims. By your discipline, cunning, obedience and alertness, you will decide if you are a hunter or a victim. … It's really a hell of a lot of fun. You're gonna have a blast out here!" He finished in Pattonesque fashion: "I feel sorry for every son of a bitch that doesn't get to serve with you."

I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: If you fuck with me, I'll kill you all.

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Parche

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Fri Nov-09-07 02:27 PM
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11. Nimitz

"You will be governed by the principal of calculated
risks which you shall interpret to the the avoidance
of your force to attack by superior force without
good prospect of inflicting, as a result of such
exposure, greater damage to the enemy. This
applies to the landing phase as well as during
preliminary air attacks."
Admiral Nimitz Battle of Midway :hi:

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krispos42

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Fri Nov-09-07 12:05 PM
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2. 'You don't win wars by dying for your country..."

"...you win wars by making the other bastard die for his."

-Patton

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Sequoia

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Fri Nov-09-07 12:15 PM
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4. Sherman:

I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.

I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are.

Every attempt to make war easy and safe will result in humiliation and disaster.

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Hobarticus

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Fri Nov-09-07 12:25 PM
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6. Sherman "got it"

War isn't mincing about, nor is it to be glorified.

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Sequoia

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Fri Nov-09-07 12:41 PM
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9. I liked him, but sure didn't like his racist views.

But most white men felt the same way he did back then.

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Deep13

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Fri Nov-09-07 12:20 PM
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5. Hotario Lord Nelson--"I really don't see the signal."

At the battle of Copenhagen, Nelson's squadron was under heavy fire from shore batteries. Adm. Parker with the main fleet further out (his ships drew too much water to enter the shallow harbor) saw the battle and thought Nelson was beeing creamed. He hoisted a signal ordering Nelson to retreat. (Just how the hell he was supposed to do that with the wind behind him is not known.)

Confident of success, Nelson said he had a right to be blind at times and raised the spyglass to his nonseeing right eye. "I really don't see the signal."

The harbor defenses eventually surrendered.

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Inchworm

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Fri Nov-09-07 12:34 PM
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7. Never awake me when you have good news

"Never awake me when you have good news to announce, because with good news nothing presses; but when you have bad news, arouse me immediately, for then there is not an instant to be lost."

Napoléon Bonaparte

I do not know circumstances surrounding quote. I just like it.

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