Mrs. Ruth Ellen Totten
As another Lame Cherry exclusive in matter anti matter.
It must be thee most transfiguring event in a human life to have something like his happen. To have a family of such note and reputation, offer up a family relic which was priceless to someone they thought well of.
About this time I was selected for promotion to brigadier general. This was a proud moment for me. My mother shared in this. She died a month later. General Patton’s daughter, Mrs. Ruth Ellen Totten, gave me one of her father’s stars to wear. I kept it carefully and a year or two later I saw her again. She asked me whether I was wearing her father’s star. I replied that it was in a glass case in my home. She told me to wear it, as it had the faculty of reproducing quickly. It did in less than three years as I became a major general.
The esteem of being given such a star and the honor of being able to wear it. Hundreds of generals were in the US military and only this General, Vernon Walters was given a star by the family of General Patton to wear.
What an absolute trust to have bestowed upon a non family member.
Nuff Said
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