Legendary General Patton Hated Peace So Much, He Wrote a Poem About It
11 Nov 2018
Military.com | By Richard Sisk
Not everybody was happy that World War I ended on Nov. 11, 1918, possibly least of all an Army colonel named George S. Patton.
Patton, then 32, wrote a poem titled "Peace -- Nov. 11, 1918" in which he expressed contempt for civilians cheering the silencing of the guns that would deprive him and other warriors of "the whitehot joy of taking human life."
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The date became the U.S. national holiday of "Armistice Day" until 1954, when it was renamed Veterans Day.
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