  e_s._patton_slapping_incidents "kuhl was sitting slouched on a stool midway through a tent ward filled with injured soldiers. when patton asked kuhl where he was hurt, kuhl reportedly shrugged and replied that he was "nervous" rather than wounded, adding, "i guess i can't take it."  patton "immediately flared up," slapped kuhl across the chin with his gloves, then grabbed him by the collar and dragged him to the tent entrance. he shoved him out of the tent with a kick to his backside. yelling "don't admit this son of a bitch," patton demanded that kuhl be sent back to the front, adding, "you hear me, you gutless bastard? you're going back to the front." - "...bennett responded. "i can't stand the shelling anymore."  patton reportedly became enraged at him, slapping him across the face. he began yelling: "your nerves, hell, you are just a goddamned coward. shut up that goddamned crying. i won't have these brave men who have been shot at seeing this yellow bastard sitting here crying." patton then reportedly slapped bennett again, knocking his helmet liner off, and ordered the receiving officer, major charles b. etter, not to admit him.  patton then threatened bennett, "you're going back to the front lines, and you may get shot and killed, but you're going to fight. if you don't, i'll stand you up against a wall and have a firing squad kill you on purpose. in fact, i ought to shoot you myself, you goddamned whimpering coward." upon saying this, patton pulled out his pistol threateningly, prompting the hospital's commander, colonel donald e. currier, to physically separate the two. patton left the tent, yelling to medical officers to send bennett back to the front lines." patton, "i can't help it. it makes my blood boil to think of a yellow bastard being babied," "i won't have those cowardly bastards hanging around our hospitals. we'll probably have to shoot them some time anyway, or we'll raise a breed of morons."
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