Patton's "dumb bastard"

[Jonathan Lighter]

Because it isn't indexed where we'd look?

JL

On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:01 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:

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> Thanks to Garson and Sam and Jon and Victor for all the great information
> about the Patton/dumb bastard quote.  But no one seems to have noticed that
> in the Yale Book of Quotations I cite the Bureau of Aeronautics Navy
> Department News Letter, Jan. 1, 1943: "The greatest duty of a sailor / Is
> duty from worries and cares, / Not to die for his country, / Make our
> enemies die for theirs!"
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> Fred Shapiro
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