ABANDONING THE STUDY OF MILITARY HISTORY -- BY JAMES CARAFANO, Washington Examiner

General George S. Patton cried. It's true.His son saw it.

Major General George S. Patton, the oldest son and namesake of "Old Blood and Guts," once shared with me his vivid memory of a night, sometime before the war, when the family was stationed in Hawaii.He had gone into his father's library, where the old man retired each evening to read military history.

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