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Bill Mauldin

Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn't like that attitude.

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Bill Mauldin is saying that Patton had an outdated way of thinking, treating soldiers as if they were low-status, unimportant people like peasants in medieval times. Mauldin disagreed with this disrespectful view because he believed soldiers deserved better treatment and recognition.

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