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Originally Posted by RustyBattleship
"To Hell with Babe Ruth. To Hell with Babe Ruth". ...
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Methinks it might have had something to do with their pronunciation. (I know that hearing my enemy yelling "To here with Babe Luth!" would cause me quite a chuckle!)
& one of my favorite military quotes:
"Diplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it." --Will Rogers--
I'm also quite partial to Gen. MacArthur's speech (in it's entirety), given when he was awarded the Sylvanus Thayer Award at West Point on 12 May, 1962--some refer to it as his "Duty, Honor, Country" speech. But here, a portion:
"... You are the leaven which binds together the entire fabric of our national system of defense. From your ranks come the great captains who hold the nation's destiny in their hands the moment the war tocsin sounds. The Long Gray Line has never failed us. Were you to do so, a million ghosts in olive drab, in brown khaki, in blue and gray, would rise from their white crosses thundering those magic words: Duty, Honor, Country.
This does not mean that you are war mongers.
On the contrary, the soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war. ..."