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General George Patton almost lost his career over an incident which he slapped a solder. The General was visiting a hospital where he encountered a soldier sitting on a hospital bed with no visible wounds. When Patton asked a hospital attendant about the situation, he was told that the soldier just "couldn't take it anymore" and was in the hospital for evaluation and to recuperate. The General became enraged, slapped the soldier across the head with his leather gloves that he always wore, and screamed at the soldier. This became known as the famous “Patton Slap.” This incident actually resulted in further investigation of such happenings as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and shell shock. The incident almost cost Patton his career, and he had to stand and publicly apologize to the hospital staff, the soldier, his command, and anybody else that his military uppers advised him to apologize to.
I think there is a vague line that a person such as Patton has to walk. On one......

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