Maybe you missed this..... Obituary for a Patriot: Maj. Gen George by Scott Stanley, Jr. George Smith Patton III was a senior at At the family home in Hamilton, Mass., with his wife Joanne Patton turned his hand in retirement to the unlikely profession of "tomato farmer" at Green Meadow Farm, the family estate, and delighted to sell his produce at a roadside stand. Patton's friend, Lt. Gen. Charley Brown, told the story of a ragtag National Guard tank convoy that had stopped to buy cold cider at the Patton stand and returned to headquarters that evening to report an encounter with a crazy old farmer who chewed them out for the shabby state of their equipment, their dress, and their demeanor.

"And get this," a National Guard private confided to the colonel in charge of the armory, "the crazy old son of a bitch thought he was Gen. George S. Patton."

He was indeed, every inch of him, and when the turncoat John F. Kerry ran for the U.S. Senate, Patton called a press conference, declared Kerry to be "soft on communism," and said that by providing propaganda for the enemy during the Vietnam War, Kerry "gave aid and comfort to the enemy and probably caused some of my guys to get killed."

How George would have loved it that today the New York Times gave exactly twice as much space to the obituary of lifelong communist propagandist Agnes Cunningham as it did to his. No doubt that would have amused him as much as his retirement business cards, printed in green ink, that read: "George S. Patton, Farmer."

Funeral services will be held Wednesday, July 7, at 10 a.m. in St. John's Episcopal Church, Beverly Farms, Mass.; his burial service will take place at Arlington National Cemetery on Friday, Aug. 27, at 11 a.m.