A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood. - George S. Patton

I don't want to get any messages saying, "I am holding my position." We are not holding a Goddamned thing. Let the Germans do that. We are advancing constantly and we are not interested in holding onto anything, except the enemy's balls. We are going to twist his balls and kick the living shit out of him all of the time. Our basic plan of operation is to advance and to keep on advancing regardless of whether we have to go over, under, or through the enemy. We are going to go through him like crap through a goose; like shit through a tin horn!

So as through a glass, and darkly The age long strife I see Where I fought in many guises, Many names, but always me. <p> And I see not in my blindness What the objects were I wrought, But as God rules o'er our bickerings It was through His will I fought. <p> So forever in the future, Shall I battle as of yore, Dying to be born a fighter, But to die again, once more.

An Army is a team. It lives, sleeps, eats, and fights as a team. This individual heroic stuff is pure horse shit. The bilious bastards who write that kind of stuff for the Saturday Evening Post don't know any more about real fighting under fire than they know about fucking!