#casualties

The United States, per capita, at a certain period in its history, had the most junkies of any country ever in the world - right after the Civil War. The most brutal war, the greatest amount of casualties that America's ever had. ↗

— Al Lewis

#america #amount #any #brutal #capita

For fear of dropping the troops in the sea, the pilots tended to drop them too far inland - some of them actually in the British lines. The weapon containers often fell wide of the troops, which was another handicap that contributed to our excessive casualties. ↗

— Kurt Student

#another #british #casualties #containers #contributed

You know, there have been a lot of casualties in rock-n-roll. ↗

— Warren Cuccurullo

#casualties #know #lot #rock-n-roll #you

The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake. ↗

— Alan Greenspan

#career #casualties #content #endeavors #even

I was very careful to send Mr. Roosevelt every few days a statement of our casualties. I tried to keep before him all the time the casualty results because you get hardened to these things and you have to be very careful to keep them always in the forefront of your mind. ↗

— George C. Marshall

#because #before #careful #casualties #casualty

The military's own report says that one-third of deaths and casualties could have been avoided if proper body armor and vehicle armor had been provided from the start of the war. ↗

— John Olver

#avoided #been #body #casualties #could

In South Texas, we understand how vital port security is and we fear the day a weapon of mass destruction could be brought into a U.S. port in a container and cause hundreds of thousands of casualties. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#casualties #cause #container #could #day

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. ↗

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#battlefield #casualties #down #great #great society

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes. ↗

— Elliot Richardson

#came #carried #case #casualties #comes

It takes 15,000 casualties to train a major general. ↗

— Ferdinand Foch

#general #major #takes #train