"George, the Army needs someone like you right now. You can't quit."

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Joanne H. Patton, p. 188. Joanne said this to her husband when he was writing out a letter of resignation, considering resigning from the Army amid frustration with, among other things, racial troubles in the Army in 1970. After asking what he was writing, Joanne took the paper and tore it up. This was the only time Patton seriously thought of resigning.