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Tango01 Supporting Member of TMP19 May 2024 3:47 p.m. PST

…Wished the Public Hadn't Discovered


""Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser," said General George Patton in numerous speeches delivered to his troops in 1944, later made famous in a cleaned up version delivered by actor George C. Scott. Patton mentioned in the same speech that America had never lost, nor never would lose a war. Perhaps not. But American troops have lost battles on their way to winning wars, some of them so decisively as to be considered disastrous. In the Mexican War and during the Spanish-American War American troops or sailors prevailed in all major combats; such was not the case in America's other wars…"

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