05-16-2022, 07:44 AM
I caught chunks of the movie Patton over the weekend. Patton is always on somewhere. And I hear Derek Cotton extolling it's virtues every time I watch. I also watched Operation Mincemeat which concerned the invasion of Siciliy. I got a little extra kick out of watching both of them because my grandfather was involved tangentially in both stories. At one point in Operation Mincemeat, the leads talk about Churchill meeting with Roosevelt in Casablanca to talk about the invasion. My grandfather talks about the same meeting in his book. Plus, his squadron helped with the invasion of Sicily. And so did Patton. I came in late to the movie so I didn't catch much of Patton's North Africa Battles and couldn't correlate those adventures to my Grandfather's. But I was surprised to see Patton in Acaccio, Corsica meeting with the French leaders knowing my Grandfather was on Corsica for six months around that same time.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm