PLYMOUTH – An administrative oversight initially prevented Jesse James Jackson from receiving trailblazing national recognition as one of the first African American Marines.
But correcting the mistake only added to the glory and allowed the longtime White Cliffs resident to celebrate what he called “the best day in my whole life” at a spry 92, when he was honored with a Congressional Gold Medal as a Montford Point Marine.
A Georgia native who would have turned 100 next June, Jackson cut as fine a figure in the business world as he did in uniform. From his origins as a young entrepreneur selling firewood to a prosperous career running restaurants and businesses in Boston, Jackson led the life of a jet-setter with his own plane, yacht and limo.
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The claim: George S. Patton said, Politicians are the lowest form of life on earth. Liberal Democrats are the lowest form of politicians.
A meme dating to 2015, claiming that World War II Gen. George S. Patton expressed disdain for left-wing Democrats, surfaced on Facebook in the days after the November election. It’s already gotten a one-two fact-check punch from Snopes and PolitiFact.
The short answer: There is no evidence that Patton an innovator in the use of tanks in combat ever said this. Snopes found the earliest use of the quote in “The Unknown Patton” by Charles Province, a 1983 book. Province did not use footnotes in his book and said the work was not a biography.