#soldiers

Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less. ↗

— Allen West

#asks #citizens #coast #continually #country

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#came #celebrations #home #memorial #parades

I want it understood that all these men fought for principle, not for plunder, and that they were true-hearted, honorable soldiers, fighting for what they esteemed was a righteous cause. ↗

— Cole Younger

#esteemed #fighting #fought #honorable #i

But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section. ↗

— Daniel H. Hill

#confined #his #jackson #means #own

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#been #eyes #fire #rank #soldiers

My son is not wild about going back to Iraq, but he'd sure rather do that than sacrifice all that he and his fellow soldiers have accomplished by leaving too early and inviting chaos. ↗

— Kit Bond

#accomplished #back #chaos #early #fellow

There's a financial cost, but the only costs that are ever real are the costs of our soldiers. ↗

— Michael Ignatieff

#costs #ever #financial #only #our

We're quickly moving to the point where we will have no military bases in the Northeast, and this undermines support for the military. We are a nation of citizen soldiers. ↗

— Rob Simmons

#citizen #military #military bases #moving #nation

Our brave soldiers and support personnel are engaged in a battle as important as any the United States has ever before waged, for the success of democracy in Iraq is a crucial test of the ideals this Nation was founded upon. ↗

— Virginia Foxx

#battle #before #brave #brave soldiers #crucial

I think everybody must be aware that this society is a whole lot shakier now than it was before the war. I was trying to examine, in 'Dog Soldiers,' the process of that blow falling on America. ↗

— Robert Stone

#aware #before #blow #dog #everybody