And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, October 2, 2024
In August of 1943, General George Patton and Brigadier General Ted Roosevelt stand on the street of a small town in Sicily.
Aesop, give the TR, Jr. , his due. He led the first wave of the 4th Infantry Division ashore at Utah Beach.
"Years later, Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic action he had ever seen in combat. He replied, 'Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach'...Of his death, Patton wrote: "Teddy R[oosevelt] died in his sleep last night. He had made three landings with the leading wave – such is fate... He was one of the bravest men I ever knew".--Wikipedia.
Can anyone really say for sure that his dying of a heart attack a month later in the Normandy Campaign was not combat-related?
that's a tired looking flathead they're standing next to.
ReplyDeleteYou know who he looks like...its true.
ReplyDeletePatton like Trump? Or Ted like a monkey?
DeleteYou ought to have some respect for a man who gave his life for us.
DeleteI agree
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ReplyDeleteTwo years later they were both dead, and neither one from combat.
ReplyDeleteAesop, give the TR, Jr. , his due. He led the first wave of the 4th Infantry Division ashore at Utah Beach.
Delete"Years later, Omar Bradley was asked to name the single most heroic action he had ever seen in combat. He replied, 'Ted Roosevelt on Utah Beach'...Of his death, Patton wrote: "Teddy R[oosevelt] died in his sleep last night. He had made three landings with the leading wave – such is fate... He was one of the bravest men I ever knew".--Wikipedia.
Can anyone really say for sure that his dying of a heart attack a month later in the Normandy Campaign was not combat-related?