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<blockquote data-quote="TerryMiller" data-source="post: 2067508" data-attributes="member: 7900"><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">From Wikipedia:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">"According to various accounts from those present, when McAuliffe was given the German message, he read it, crumpled it into a ball, threw it in a wastepaper basket, and muttered, "Aw, nuts". The officers in McAuliffe's command post were trying and failing to come up with suitable language for an official reply when Lt. Col. Harry Kinnard suggested that McAuliffe's first response summed up the situation pretty well, and the others agreed. The official reply was typed and delivered by Colonel Joseph Harper, commanding the 327th Glider Infantry, to the German delegation. It was as follows:</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> To the German Commander.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> NUTS!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"> The American Commander</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">The German major appeared confused and asked Harper what the message meant. Harper said, "In plain English? Go to hell." The choice of "Nuts!" rather than something earthier was typical for McAuliffe. Vincent Vicari, his personal aide at the time, recalled that "General Mac was the only general I ever knew who did not use profane language. 'Nuts' was part of his normal vocabulary."</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_McAuliffe" target="_blank">Wikipedia Article</a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"><span style="font-size: 12px">I am also 66+ years old, born in May of 1946, and I've yet to find an article stating that the event was not true. Of course, having had several uncles that were in the Navy during WWII, I didn't hear a lot of stories about the Army when I was younger. Plus, I've tended to believe that many events like that were too well "witnessed" to be false.</span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TerryMiller, post: 2067508, member: 7900"] [FONT=Georgia][SIZE=3]From Wikipedia: "According to various accounts from those present, when McAuliffe was given the German message, he read it, crumpled it into a ball, threw it in a wastepaper basket, and muttered, "Aw, nuts". The officers in McAuliffe's command post were trying and failing to come up with suitable language for an official reply when Lt. Col. Harry Kinnard suggested that McAuliffe's first response summed up the situation pretty well, and the others agreed. The official reply was typed and delivered by Colonel Joseph Harper, commanding the 327th Glider Infantry, to the German delegation. It was as follows: To the German Commander. NUTS! The American Commander The German major appeared confused and asked Harper what the message meant. Harper said, "In plain English? Go to hell." The choice of "Nuts!" rather than something earthier was typical for McAuliffe. Vincent Vicari, his personal aide at the time, recalled that "General Mac was the only general I ever knew who did not use profane language. 'Nuts' was part of his normal vocabulary." [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_McAuliffe"]Wikipedia Article[/URL] I am also 66+ years old, born in May of 1946, and I've yet to find an article stating that the event was not true. Of course, having had several uncles that were in the Navy during WWII, I didn't hear a lot of stories about the Army when I was younger. Plus, I've tended to believe that many events like that were too well "witnessed" to be false.[/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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