raymond ll here and rolled up that gun. and there's a plaque to his dad. and while we were talking about it, i had my book with me. and i said, you know, ray, is it possible that this is the gun your dad knocked out? and so we sort of walked out of the town and walked up the street and turned to the left, and the terrain looked almost identical. can't prove it, but kind of cool. this is patton during the bulge. he actually went blind one day because he spent so much time outside in the cold, and the snow was blowing left and right, that his eyes swelled up. so he did have to spend one day off the battlefield. there's a famous scene on december 19th, the germans attack on the 16th. eisenhower calls a meeting at a place called verdun on the 19th. before patton goes, he reveals three plans with his troop thise called cent diamond nickel. cent was to drive forward, diamond was to cut it off at the nose and nickel was to cut it off at the base. all i have to do is pick up the phone and say dime, cent or nickel and the whole thing starts happening. he goes to the meeting in verdun at 12:00. his staff had been working on it all the time. that's w