Re: SF Quotes <off topic>
From: "Jeremy Sadler" <jsadler@e...>
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 18:16:51 +1000
Subject: Re: SF Quotes <off topic>
>Jeremy Sadler wrote:
>...Snip...(JTL)
>> "Nuts!"
>> Response by American CO to German demand for surrender
>> Battle of the Bulge
>Having known a few paras, I have always suspected the actual
>line was a great deal more graphic and highly personal.
>The U.S. population would not have been able to accept the
>actual verbage, coming from a general officer and a gentleman
>by act of congress. This was the '40s after all and we
>wouldn't want to offend now, would we?
I suspect you are correct, but I still love the story... :)
JS
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