When President-elect Donald Trump announced Gen. James “Mad Dog” Mattis as his pick for the secretary of defense, he told a crowd in Cincinnati, “They say that he is the closest thing to Gen. George Patton that we have,” according to RealClearPolitics.
Gen. George Patton looms large over American political history, especially after George C. Scott’s masterful screen performance as the World War II general.
Gen. Patton was even more of a legend — and this Christmas card proves just that.
Patton had Chaplain Fr. James O’Neill compose a card to be distributed to each one of the 250,000 troops under his command in the Third Army, and had all of the men pray this simple prayer:
AMAZING!
Doesn’t get much better than that.
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