{"id":82828,"date":"2018-11-12T12:15:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T16:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=82828"},"modified":"2018-11-12T12:03:38","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T16:03:38","slug":"patton-was-a-poet-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=82828","title":{"rendered":"Patton Was a Poet? Who Knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Band of Brothers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Well, if that don\u2019t beat all. It explains a lot, though.<\/p>\n

From a MilitaryNews article dated\u00a011 Nov 2018 at Military.com<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0By\u00a0Richard Sisk<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article: \u00a0\u00a0Not everybody was happy that World War I ended on Nov. 11, 1918, possibly least of all an\u00a0Army<\/a>\u00a0colonel named George S. Patton.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.military.com\/daily-news\/2018\/11\/11\/legendary-general-patton-hated-peace-so-much-he-wrote-poem-about-it.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Patton, then 32, wrote a poem titled “Peace — Nov. 11, 1918” in which he expressed contempt for civilians cheering the silencing of the guns that would deprive him and other warriors of “the whitehot joy of taking human life.”<\/p>\n

“The poem described Patton’s ‘dismay’ at the popular excitement that greeted the peace, which he characterized as the ‘cruel glee of the weak,'” the notes continue. “Patton’s poem mourned the loss during peacetime of the virtues that he believed war inspired, such as sacrifice and purpose.”<\/p>\n

Patton was dyslexic, which left the poem full of misspelled words, but the original draft is on disply as part of a display by the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n

The library’s notes say “an editor, possibly Patton’s wife Beatrice, has crossed out those lines that express especially strong sentiments like comparing peaceful life to ‘a festering sewer’ ” in the draft of the poem on exhibit.<\/p>\n

The reference is to the following lines:<\/p>\n

“Looking forward I could see<\/p>\n

Life like a festering sewer<\/p>\n

Full of the fecal Pacafists [sic]<\/p>\n

Which peace makes us endure”<\/p>\n

If you bring this up to current events, does it almost seem prescient, as in a vague way, a reference to the disturbances we see now in politics?<\/p>\n

If you go back into the histories of both World Wars, neither Woodrow Wilson nor Franklin Roosevelt wanted to be involved in the war in Europe. Both of them were Socialists in their thinking, with Wilson wanting a one world government through the League of Nations, and Roosevelt leaning toward government work programs to resolve the economic issues of the Great Depression. Both of them were reluctantly dragged into those wars, Wilson by a U-boat sinking the Lusitania in the Atlantic, and Roosevelt by the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Neither of them understood (or seemed to want to understand) that pacifism of the kind that Angela Merkel has offered Europe for some time now leads to destruction of your society. And she’s lost her majority because the AfD received enough votes to take a seat in Parliament.<\/p>\n

What Patton forgot, in his disdain for peacetime, was that while it is necessary to be prepared to defend your home from invaders, peacetime is the reward for successfully doing so… until the next bunch of barbarians show up at the gates.<\/p>\n

I think Pres. Trump understands it quite well and is willing to rattle Vlad\u2019s doorknobs and confront Xi JinPing as he did Li\u2019l Fatty Kim da T\u2019ird, who, BTW, has been squabbling over negotiations with South Korea, although they are continuing to dismantle the guard posts. \u00a0(See \u00a0below) \u00a0\u00a0https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2018\/11\/11\/2-koreas-complete-the-disarming-of-22-guard-posts\/<\/a><\/p>\n

That\u2019s something to consider and discuss at length.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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