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Originally Posted by Muley Gil
Not too many folks know that Patton attended VMI for a year before he went to West Point. His father and his grandfather, a Confederate colonel who was killed during the War, were both VMI graduates.
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As I recall, it took him 5 yrs to get through the Point.
His statue faces the library. It is said his wife had that done, because he spent so little time there.
Olympic fencer.
Youngest(?) "Master of the Sword" the Army ever had?? as I recall.
Designed (copied the Brits) the Patton saber- really about the best Cav saber we had, IMO., for the nature of its use at the time.
It is said he shot a Mexican off a horse when the man tried to ride him down with that SA during the Villa border chases.
Read Rommel's book, and thought him brilliant.
Mucho Hombre.