Jerry- You are right in your analysis of Gen. George Smith Patton Jr. was a true anachronism- a student of history, who overcame dyslexia (we didn't really know what that was in 1900-) and although graduated in the middle of his West Point Class, became one of Gen. "Black Jack" Pershing's favorite junior officers in the Mexico "campaign" to bag bandito Pancho Villa- Pershing lost his wife and children in a tragic house fire at Fort Bliss in 1912- he later "dated" Patton's younger sister-no marriage resulted, most likely didn't hurt Patton's Army career

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