Que ya comenté aquí hace mucho tiempo pero creo vale la pena recordarlo, y lo transcribo a continuación, para quien le pueda interesar:
General George
S. Patton, Jr.
3rd Army Speech -England .
31 MAY 1944 - 6th Armored Division
3rd Army Speech -
31 MAY 1944 - 6th Armored Division
"Now
I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country.
You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country. Men, all
this stuff you've heard about America not wanting to fight, wanting to stay out
of the war, is a lot of horse dung. Americans traditionally love to fight. All
real Americans, love the sting of battle. When you were kids, you all admired
the champion marble shooter, the fastest runner, the big league ball players,
the toughest boxers ... Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser.
Americans play to win all the time. I wouldn't give a hoot in Hell for a man
who lost and laughed. That's why Americans have never lost and will never lose
a war. Because the very thought of losing is hateful to Americans. Now, an army
is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, fights as a team. This individuality stuff
is a bunch of crap. The Bilious bastards who wrote that stuff about
individuality for the Saturday Evening Post, don't know anything more about
real battle than they do about fornicating. Now we have the finest food and
equipment, the best spirit, and the best men in the world. You know ... My God,
I actually pity those poor bastards we're going up against. My God, I do. We're
not just going to shoot the bastards, we're going to cut out their living guts
and use them to grease the treads of our tanks. We're going to murder those
lousy Hun bastards by the bushel. Now some of you boys, I know, are wondering
whether or not you'll chicken out under fire. Don't worry about it. I can assure
you that you'll all do your duty. The Nazis are the enemy. Wade into them.
Spill their blood, shoot them in the belly. When you put your hand into a bunch
of goo, that a moment before was your best friends face, you'll know what to
do. Now there's another thing I want you to remember. I don't want to get any
messages saying that we are holding our position. We're not holding anything,
we'll let the Hun do that. We are advancing constantly, and we're not
interested in holding onto anything except the enemy. We're going to hold onto
him by the nose, and we're going to kick him in the ass. We're going to kick
the hell out of him all the time, and we're going to go through him like crap
through a goose. Now, there's one thing that you men will be able to say when
you get back home, and you may thank God for it. Thirty years from now when
you're sitting around your fireside with your grandson on your knee, and he
asks you, What did you do in the great World War Two? You won't have to say,
Well, I shovelled shit in Louisiana .
Alright now, you sons of bitches, you know how I feel. I will be proud to lead
you wonderful guys into battle anytime, anywhere. That's all."
General George S.
Patton, Jr.
“Ahora
quiero recordaros que ningún bastardo ha ganado nunca una guerra muriendo por
su país. Vosotros ganareis haciendo que el otro pobre y estúpido bastardo muera
por el suyo.”
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