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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cringely, post: 1670291, member: 22271&quot;]<img src="http://www.cointalk.com/images/misc/quote_icon.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> Originally Posted by <b>treehugger</b> <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t224564/#post1667749" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t224564/#post1667749"><img src="http://www.cointalk.com/images/buttons/viewpost-right.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>It&#039;s too bad we can&#039;t make George S. Patton a 5-star general posthumously and give him a coin also. I think that would sell.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Read more: <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/t224564/#ixzz2OEht7nPB" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/t224564/#ixzz2OEht7nPB">http://www.cointalk.com/t224564/#ixzz2OEht7nPB</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>While it is off-topic, I would say that George Marshall was the most respected military leader of WWII. This was the opinion of many others (MacArthur notwithstanding) including Omar Bradley. Roosevelt commented that he wouldn&#039;t be able to sleep at night if Marshall was out of the country (in giving the supreme command of the invasion to Eisenhower). If any general deserved his own coin, it would be Marshall. Unfortunately, he felt that personal aggrandizement was to be shunned (unlike MacArthur to whom it was a watch word).</p><p><br /></p><p>As far as Major General Nathanael Greene (and if you don&#039;t know who he was, look him up), had he not died at an early age, he would have been the first Secretary of Way (and had a good chance of becoming President).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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