Yeller vs. Yellow (boring stuff for the history buff)
 

Somewhere in England, June 5th, 1944, General Patton said to a bunch of troops:

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Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow cowards in this Army. They should be killed off like rats. If not, they will go home after this war and breed more cowards. The brave men will breed more brave men. Kill off the Goddamned cowards and we will have a nation of brave men. One of the bravest men that I ever saw was a fellow on top of a telegraph pole in the midst of a furious fire fight in Tunisia. I stopped and asked what the hell he was doing up there at a time like that. He answered, "Fixing the wire, Sir". I asked, "Isn't that a little unhealthy right about now?" He answered, "Yes Sir, but the Goddamned wire has to be fixed". I asked, "Don't those planes strafing the road bother you?" And he answered, "No, Sir, but you sure as hell do!" Now, there was a real man. A real soldier. There was a man who devoted all he had to his duty, no matter how seemingly insignificant his duty might appear at the time, no matter how great the odds. And you should have seen those trucks on the rode to Tunisia. Those drivers were magnificent. All day and all night they rolled over those son-of-a-bitching roads, never stopping, never faltering from their course, with shells bursting all around them all of the time. We got through on good old American guts. Many of those men drove for over forty consecutive hours. These men weren't combat men, but they were soldiers with a job to do. They did it, and in one hell of a way they did it. They were part of a team. Without team effort, without them, the fight would have been lost. All of the links in the chain pulled together and the chain became unbreakable...more

Also Interesting:

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The Confederacy was not only a regime that was based in racial aristocracy; it was the most treasonous and destructive movement in American history. The Confederates are responsible for a war that cost more American lives than any other war; they are responsible for attempting to tear apart the United States. If that wasn?t treason, I don?t know the meaning of the word.

What is most remarkable is that even though the ideas behind the confederacy are treasonous and have been discredited by intelligent people for the past 140 years, there are millions of people who wax nostalgic for it..more

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This is a highly classified program that is crucial to our national security. Its purpose is to detect and prevent terrorist attacks against the United States, our friends and allies. Yesterday the existence of this secret program was revealed in media reports, after being improperly provided to news organizations. As a result, our enemies have learned information they should not have, and the unauthorized disclosure of this effort damages our national security and puts our citizens at risk. Revealing classified information is illegal, alerts our enemies, and endangers our country.

Hmm... where do I start?

It's not often that a criminal gets to openly admit his criminal behavior to millions of people and immediately offer up a clearly ludicrous defense and not end up in jail in a matter of minutes. I mean, he's admitted it...more

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Bush treason n. is simple-- the selling out of the country by a person in power who claims to be acting on behalf of the good of the country... more

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ONLY THE IGNORANT DARE CALL FRENCH COWARDS

VERDUN, France - Something keeps drawing me back to this most evil and sinister battlefield on earth, a mere 18 km(10.8 miles) by 10 km (6 miles), where during ten hellish months of 1916 1.4 million French and German soldiers were killed or gravely wounded.

Each year it is my custom to greet spring in France?s exquisite countryside, exploring battlefields and forts of the two world wars. But this, my sixth journey to Verdun, holds particular personal meaning.

Decades of travel, covering many wars, reading the history of man?s folly have made me a cosmopolitan who detests borders and earnestly believes mankind?s worst evils are nationalism and religious fanaticism. Still, there are four countries that I hold particularly dear and to whom I feel respectful (as opposed to hormonal) patriotism, respect, and loyalty - Canada, France, Switzerland, the United States...more

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