From Patton's 3rd Army speech,
One of the bravest men I saw in the African campaign was on a telegraph pole in the midst of a furious firefight while we were moving toward Tunis. I stopped and asked him what the hell he was doing up there.
He answered, 'Fixing the wire, sir.'
'Isn't it a little unhealthy up there right now?' I asked.
'Yes sir, but this goddamn wire has got to be fixed.'
I asked, 'Don't those planes strafing the road bother you?'
And he answered, 'No sir, but you sure as hell do.'
Now, there was a real soldier. A real man. A man who devoted all he had to his duty, no matter how great the odds, no matter how seemingly insignificant his duty appeared at the time.
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