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Jeff Jacoby

Patton and the 2008 vote

By Jeff Jacoby
Globe Columnist / March 16, 2008

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ON THE eve of the Normandy invasion in 1944, General George S. Patton, addressing the men of the US Third Army, delivered a speech that would become legendary long before George C. Scott reenacted it on a Hollywood soundstage. (Full article: 756 words)

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