Reply #33: "When morals go down, morale goes up."--Gen. George S. Patton

[onager]

He was talking about another idea spawned by a bunch of clueless, meddling do-gooders: the "non-fraternization" policy at the end of World War II.

That policy said GI's were not allowed to..."fraternize" with their former enemies in Germany and Japan. Technically, an American soldier couldn't even give part of his rations to a starving child. But everybody knew it was really meant to keep Our Boys from having S-E-X with furrin' women.

Patton thought it was a stupid policy and said so.

Over in Japan, Gen. Douglas MacArthur reportedly looked over his copy of the new policy and laughed. Then he tossed it into a trashcan and said: "My father taught me to never give an order I couldn't enforce."

I'm just disappointed that the Raw Story article wasn't written by that great American, Mr. Jack Meoff.