Re: I'm Proud to Be A Vet- BUT....

Posted by JerryS on November 11, 2013 at 22:05:59 from (98.80.122.41):

In Reply to: I'm Proud to Be A Vet- BUT.... posted by donjr on November 11, 2013 at 16:03:44:

To Bob and some of the others below who wonder if their contributions were important, here's what George Patton in his famous speech had to say about the matter (edited somewhat to get past the filter):

"All of the real heroes are not storybook combat fighters, either. Every single man in this Army plays a vital role. Don't ever let up. Don't ever think that your job is unimportant. Every man has a job to do and he must do it. Every man is a vital link in the great chain. What if every truck driver suddenly decided that he didn't like the whine of those shells overhead, turned yellow, and jumped headlong into a ditch? The cowardly b----rd could say, "He11, they won't miss me, just one man in thousands".

But, what if every man thought that way? Where in the he11 would we be now? What would our country, our loved ones, our homes, even the world, be like? No, GD-it, Americans don't think like that. Every man does his job. Every man serves the whole. Every department, every unit,
is important in the vast scheme of this war. The ordnance men are needed to supply the guns and machinery of war to keep us rolling. The Quartermaster is needed to bring up food and clothes because where we are going there isn't a hell of a lot to steal. Every last man on K.P. has a job to do, even the one who heats our water to keep us from getting the 'G.I. (diarrhea)"

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 he11 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 GD 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 he11 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 road to Tunisia. Those drivers were magnificent. All day and all night they rolled over those SOB-ing 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 he11 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."

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