It was one of those hot days and it got to be about a hundred degrees, and old Mike just got fed up and threw his books in the corner, and said, 'See ya later, Doc, I'm going to war.' Next thing we heard, he was in Italy with the 3rd Division, where he later was awarded the Medal of Honor and received a battlefield promotion.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "It was one of those hot days and it got to be about a hundred degrees, and old Mike just got fed up and threw his books in the corner, and said, 'See ya later, Doc, I'm going to war.' Next thing we heard, he was in Italy with the 3rd Division, where he later was awarded the Medal of Honor and received a battlefield promotion." in the context of "George S. Patton IV on his time attending the United States Military Academy alongside Daly in the 1941-1942 academic year; Daly had a mixed record at West Point and dropped out to enlist before completing his first year there. As quoted by Brian M. Sobel, The Fighting Pattons (1997), p. 27" to mean that wisdom is timeless.