On the 80th Anniversary of D-Day
Every year I share General Patton’s speech. It’s the most inspirational speech I’ve ever read and I want to run into parking lots and throw cars in the air whenever I read it. Who but Patton could inspire troops to advance so bravely in the face of all odds? Who but Patton could lay out the reality of a grim and bloody war in one breath and in the next overtake it with the light of such a glorious and noble cause?
They Don't Make Them Like This Anymore
Patton’s Speech to the Third Army One of my favorite speeches of all-time is General Patton’s rousing and comically profane speech to the Third Army, delivered on the eve of the Allied invasion of Normandy. I feel like my space here lacks soul without its inclusion and what a day such as the 79th observance of D-Day to induct it into the archives. As Pat…
Patton practiced “inclusivity” in the military before “inclusivity” was a thing, and he did it the right and proper way. Note from his speech here:
An army is a team. It lives, eats, sleeps, and fights as a team. This individual hero stuff is bullshit. The bilious bastards who write that stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don't know any more about real battle than they do about fucking. Now we have the finest food and equipment, the best spirit and the best men in the world. You know, by God, I actually pity these poor bastards we're going up against, by God I do.
All the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters. Every single man in the army plays a vital role. So don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. What if every truck driver decided that he didn't like the whine of the shells and turned yellow and jumped headlong into a ditch? That cowardly bastard could say to himself, 'Hell, they won't miss me, just one man in thousands.' What if every man said that? Where in the hell would we be then? No, thank God, Americans don't say that. Every man does his job. Every man is important. The ordnance men are needed to supply the guns, the quartermaster is needed to bring up the food and clothes for us because where we are going there isn't a hell of a lot to steal. Every last damn man in the mess hall, even the one who boils the water to keep us from getting the GI shits, has a job to do.
Each man must think not only of himself, but think of his buddy fighting alongside him. We don't want yellow cowards in the army. They should be killed off like flies. If not, they will go back home after the war, goddamn cowards, and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the goddamn cowards and we'll have a nation of brave men.
That was true equality. None of this sex flag and men in heels nonsense. The equality of purpose, of battle, of teamwork. True, real, lasting equality. If it didn’t strengthen the whole it was a distraction and distractions are tricks of the enemy.
I’ve never missed my grandparents more than I do now in this age. I’ve never grieved for the dwindling down of an entire generation more than I have for the greatest one. Sometimes I wonder if they served such a grand and fruitful purpose they put all other endeavors from later generations to shame — and then I realize why I mourn their loss when I take inventory of the hellscape we call a society today and the growing instability here and around the world.
Take heart. We were born for such a time as this. “The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the goddamn cowards and we'll have a nation of brave men.”
Never Forget.....thank you Dana.
Like most patriots will, this day in history is one never to ignore or forget. The media and culture we have won't say a word about today. The majority of Americans are soft like milk toast, including a lot of high ranking left leaning military officers. God bless all who gave their lives then and now for our freedoms not just in the states, but around the world.