When Was George Patton Crazy

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However, Patton was more than just competitive, some would even say he was crazy. While he was still a cadet at West Point, they would often have target practice. And one of these times Patton walked out onto the firing rang to retrieve the card he had just shot, all the while the other cadets were still shooting. Upon realizing this Patton turned around and stared down those shooting, later in his journal he wrote “Well at least I know I have some nerve” (23). And this wouldn’t be the last episode like this, there were several others. For example, in World War I he stood on the bare top of a tank and rode on the top directly into German machine gun fire. Later when asked why he did such a thing he simply said, “At least I proved to my own

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