{"id":129362,"date":"2022-08-18T08:00:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=129362"},"modified":"2022-08-17T22:56:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T02:56:07","slug":"now-this-is-a-feel-good-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=129362","title":{"rendered":"Now this is a feel good story"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MG Paul Stanton being pinned with his second star<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This is a great story. Major General Paul Stanton was just given his second star. The night before his promotional ceremony, he received a letter from his father, a retired three-star. With the letter was a pair of major general’s stars, with a provenance that dates back to one of the US Army’s greatest combat leaders, General George S. Patton III. Getting a surprise gift of hand-me-down stars from your father is one thing, but having them handed down from general to general from Old Blood and Guts himself is pretty awesome. I guess it’s just one more bonus of being a legacy.<\/p>\n

From Army Times<\/a>;<\/p>\n

Stanton was at his kitchen table on the evening ahead of his promotion when his father, retired Army three-star and former budget director Edgar Stanton III, pulled out a letter with a sterling silver major general rank insignia pinned to it.<\/p>\n

The letter, which Stanton shared online, explained the origin of the insignia: the stars had first belonged to the legendary, if controversial, Gen. George Patton, who received them when he took command of the 2nd Armored Division in 1942.<\/p>\n

Patton\u2019s widow, Beatrice Ayer, passed the stars to the general\u2019s WWII-era operations officer \u2014 Gen. Paul Harkins \u2014 when he received his second star and took command of the 45th Infantry Division during the Korean War. Harkins went on to become the first commander of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam in 1962.<\/p>\n

Harkins in turn gave Patton\u2019s insignia to Maj. Gen. William Mundie, a former aide, when he took command of Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, in 1975.<\/p>\n

Stanton\u2019s father, who was Mundie\u2019s aide during his tour at the helm of Army Recruiting Command, received the stars from his mentor in 2006, with instructions to pass them on to his son \u2014 should he reach the two-star rank.<\/p>\n

And before Thursday evening, the younger Stanton never knew any of this.<\/p>\n

…<\/p>\n

Stanton said he\u2019s bound to the wishes of Mundie, who died in 2019, when it comes to where the stars will go next.<\/p>\n

\u201cI haven\u2019t decided how I\u2019m going to memorialize it and hang onto it [in the short-term],\u201d he shared. \u201c[Long-term], I have basically two options: I can hand them to a future two-star general or I will dedicate them to the museum at [West Point].\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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