Before the Colors Fade Author:Fred Ayer, Jr. This book is not about military campaigns, nor is it biography. It is rather an intimate portrait by one who observed his uncle, George S. Patton, critically as well as with affection over twenty years, and who as a boy first heard the lifetime Patton credo: "The greatest privilege of citizenship is to be able freely to bear arms under one's c... more »ountry's flag."« less