<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=157975.msg7263202#msg7263202">Quote from: Branwen on 22-11-2012, 19:37:35</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote">I'll embroider it onto a throw pillow for you.<br/><br/>Personal story time.  I know that because my father's hero is General Omar Bradley.  His favorite photograph is General Bradley presenting him with a medal.  Of course by then General Bradley was very old and in a wheelchair, but my dad worships him.  So, of course, I grew up hearing about Bradley.  And you can't hear about Bradley without hearing about Patton.<br/><br/>I also learned that my dad's dad referred to President Roosevelt as "That syphilitic son-of-a-bitch" even in polite company.  I'm not sure why though.  :)<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/>Bradley and Patton was about as opposite of the field as you could get. But both were too important for modern armored warfare to be counted on their own merits alone. As for FDR, perhaps his being a Democrat or "cheating" his way into extra terms were a cause for ill will. : :P