Jonathan Bratten
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first heard Apr 2026
last heard 6 Apr
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He turns his back on the crowd and turns to look at the cemetery, which are all his soldiers.
And
In this really moving moment, he apologizes to his soldiers and he says, if there is something that I did that put you here, I am sorry for it.
And it's this really human moment that is kind of rare when you look, you know, as you said earlier, it's a crowded field.
And a lot of these people are prima donnas.
I mean, you have the Montgomery's, the Patton's, even the Bradley's to a certain extent.
You know, he's got his own ego to deal with.
But this sort of humility and understanding that it is the average soldier that fights and suffers and bleeds and dies in all these moving little pieces around on a map in order to capture things like Rome, in order to do things like...
seize Sicily and sort of erase the access control off the Italian boot, which is a secondary theater that many historians have argued about whether the US or the allies should have expended that many resources against North Africa, Sicily, and Italy.
And so, I think that makes him a very sympathetic person.
Patton rates him as a very proficient division commander, which almost comes as a dig.
I don't know.
I always look at Patton's quotes with a grain of salt where I'm going, all right, what else is he saying?
But rising to army command, he does a phenomenal job.
And I think if you put him in another location, we would hear a lot more about Lucian Truscott.
Instead, we just know of him for his brief scenes in the movie Patton and that I think it was his son,
who did go to West Point, his son or his grandson wrote a romantic thriller based at West Point where you're just like, man, your dad was famous for not going here and you've become so bought in that you're just imbibing the West Point Kool-Aid.
It leads us almost to an interesting point where, as we talk about great commanders of World War II, I think some of the most brilliant minds in World War II never commanded a single person.
And the first person who jumps to mind is George Marshall.
I mean, he's the one who's orchestrating getting all these forces together.
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