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- From: rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu (Rao Akella)
- Subject: Patton quotes (Was: Re: Is this for real?)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.204936.27853@news2.cis.umn.edu>
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- Organization: Colon Cancer Control Study, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
- References: <smac.725672149@iconix.oz.au>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 20:49:36 GMT
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- In article <smac.725672149@iconix.oz.au>, smac@iconix.oz.au (Stuart McCormack) writes:
- >
- > In the movie PATTON, George C Scott reels off a quotation that he later
- > claims as his own.
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- How about the following quote from the famous opening scene (you know, the one
- with the pearl-handled revolvers and the flag-draped background)?
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- "No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country -- he won it by making
- the OTHER poor bastard die for HIS country."
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- Is this also a real quote by Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., or is it a piece of
- fiction invented by the movie?
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- I have 5 books of quotations sitting on my shelf, and not one of them even
- mentions Patton.
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- -- Rao Akella <rao@moose.cccs.umn.edu, rao%moose@umnacvx.bitnet>
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