speech from the movie "Patton" given to the 3rd army

beginning intro speech that came from one of the most magnificent war movies ever made. "Patton"

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[777Abrams]

707 basterds won the war by making the other 15 poor dumb basterds die for their country.

[Michael Jones]

16 people shoveled Shit in Louisiana!

[emw1994]

Sweden was only involved in the first barbary war and quit before the thing was over. we were alone in the second barbary war. there were many indian wars so it's foolish to think that any one power won that (it's also not something to be proud of). You two forgot about the war of 1812. He might have some inaccuracies, but you have to admit, the world wars would have ended very badly if america wasnt involved.

[771jj]

Patton, the prima donna that he was (all great men are), castigated everybody. An old friend of mine served under him in Germany. He said when he graduated from the OCS in Ft. Benning, Ga. the then Colonel Patton addressed that class and said "you second lieutenants have as much rank as a whore has virtue". He was vulgar and straight forward but always got his point made. And anyone who ever served under him are among the proudest men on this earth. That says it all !!!

[Sensei Raven]

The bugle call in the beginning is called "To the Colors"; it's used when raising or lowering the National Ensign (flag) to render honors to the nation. The call is used whenever there's no band available to play the U.S. National Anthem, and is afforded the same level of respect.

That's why George C. Scott (playing Patton) is saluting at the beginning of the movie; he and the others in the room are rendering honors to the U.S. Flag prior to his speech.

You can find samples of it here on YT.

[Jenkins McJizzMyPants]

Whats the song with the horns in the beginning?

[tennickm109]

Ya but America played the biggest part in all of the wars they won, except for ww1

[MyTimmyMonster]

Allies: revolution- france, barbary- sweden, spanish- cuba, indian- Great britain+ several independent states, mexican- republic of california, cold war- basically half the world. Look up the definition of alone "for god's sake."

[MyTimmyMonster]

the war of 1812 was unsuccessful almost entirely in terms of original goals. Mexican american war was entered along side the republic of California, at the time an independent state. The spanish american war was entered along side the island of cuba. I'm not trying to cause arguments here, I don't have anything against the US, it's just a genuine FACT that the USA haven't got close to winning a war alone. Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's just that "americans never lose" isn't true

[thehalfbreed767]

oh shit lol sorry ^.^

[jellisrellish]

dude you mixed up the countries. he said vietnam not korea

[jellisrellish]

Whether we like it or not, we lost the battle for morale. A war is not fought solely in body count, there are many factors at work. Look at the soviets in ww2, we need to stop pretending like it didnt happen and learn from it.