Quotes About Veterans

If you have John Terry, Frank Lampard on the pitch, they've seen everything in football. And it gives you a good feeling because they know what to do.

Officially, Fascism was born in Milan on Sunday, March 23, 1919. That morning, somewhat more than a hundred persons,11 including war veterans, syndicalists who had supported the war, and Futurist12 intellectuals, plus some reporters and the merely curious, gathered in the meeting room of the Milan Industrial and Commercial Alliance, overlooking the Piazza San Sepolcro, to "declare war against socialism . . . because it has opposed nationalism.

The historical witness is clear: as confederate symbols migrated from cemeteries and veterans' parades, they became less about honoring the past and more about upholding white supremacy in the present. In fact, the relationship is inversely proportional. The further the distance from the cemetery and the past, the more nakedly obvious their role in asserting white supremacy becomes.

Some old warriors are like good weapons. Their scars become the patina of experience and wisdom.

Oh no," Grant smirked. "If I had got him I'd let him go again; he will do us more good commanding you fellows."34 Grant and Buckner, both veterans who remembered Pillow from Mexico, shared a good laugh at this caustic remark. Grant liked to tell stories of how Pillow once dug a ditch on the wrong side of his breastworks or described himself as "cut down by grape shot" when a bullet grazed his foot.35 During

color, from badger-colored veterans who could handle

We are judges of wounds, we old soldiers

In his official memoir, he notes with satisfaction that he spent 600 million sesterces on land bought in Italy for his veterans

If you had to put people, senators - if they had to go for their V.A. to get care, it would probably get fixed.

Sen. Akaka never forgot the cost of war on our country.

My war buddies, some were Americans, but some were Afghans. These were the guys that I fought alongside. We bled alongside each other; we mourned together. When I came home, these weren't people I could keep up with on Facebook.

Veterans Day is an acknowledgment that those willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for our country - and their families - deserve our admiration and respect today and every day.

The willingness of America's veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.

When I used to get the ball on the wing, I'd go fast and I'd go right. Veterans in this league, they watch film. They're definitely going to strategize. They know you like to go right. They know what your moves are.

I had very good vets that took me under their wing, so I just want to be sure I give the same thing back.

But the war proponents tried desperately to continue the glorification of war by praising anyone who had been sent off to war or even just put on a uniform. Troops and veterans were placed on pedestals as great heroes—warriors who had saved us from some imagined modern-day Hitler.

Men and women who have served in harm's way experience higher rates of divorce and suicide. Many battle the debilitating effects and stigma associated with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.

When the Veterans Affairs Department implemented a program to provide home-based health care to veterans with multiple chronic conditions - many of the system's most expensive patients to treat - they received astounding results.

What wounded veteran's don't need is sympathy. THey need to be treated like the men they are: equals, heroes, and people who still have tremendous value for society.

When a guy running for president will not support the troops, not support veterans, not support teachers, that's really important.

You remember Vietnam veterans being spat upon, incidents that were called an "urban myth" by liberals, until Chicago Tribune columnist Bob Greene asked in his newspaper column if any Vietnam veterans were personally spat upon when they returned to the United States. He received more than a thousand replies, sixty of which are included in his book Homecoming.51

America's Veterans have served their country with the belief that democracy and freedom are ideals to be upheld around the world.

Our concern is the invisible wounding from war. The physical wounds are most visible to our veterans who deserve first concern. But in truth we are all wounded. Grandparents, parents, siblings, children, friends, neighbors, care providers, teachers, taxpayers are all caught in war's long and crushing tentacles. Our entire society reels in pain, exhaustion, despair, and debt. Look closely. All lives are affected and we all need be concerned.

What if significant reasons our veterans suffer in epidemic numbers lie, to paraphrase Shakespeare, "not in the veterans but in ourselves"? What if the sources of traumatic breakdown are in society; in our beliefs and practices; in the reasons and ways we prepare for and make war; and in the ways we neglect or fail our troops before, during, and after service? What if veterans are carrying our collective war wounding alone because it is denied and disowned by society at large?