Quotes About Service

I feel that our country's real heroes are our brave soldiers who leave their families to protect our land.

I volunteered to deploy to Iraq. I was one of the few soldiers who were not on the mandatory deployment roster - close to 3,000 Hawaii soldiers were.

From the depths of the Pacific to the deserts of Iraq, more than a million American soldiers, Airmen, midshipmen, and Marines have laid down their lives for their friends, their families and our nation.

I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.

I just think it's my responsibility as a human being and an entertainer to see the soldiers.

I was most impressed with the professionalism of our soldiers stationed there, and I am now more confident than ever that that the operations at Guantanamo are being conducted in a humane and necessary manner.

After all my years of playing soldiers, and then of reading History, I have almost a mania to be in the East, to see fighting, and to serve.

Most of the other soldiers were older than me and sent money back to their families, so they were more prudent.

'Home' is an important word for our soldiers, sailors, airmen and women. They regularly put their lives at risk in order to make us feel safe in our own homes while fighting to provide overseas communities with that same security.

I am a soldier, convinced that I am acting on behalf of soldiers.

For some individuals - some soldiers, some contractors - combat provides a kind of purpose and meaning beyond which all else potentially pales in comparison.

We should be proud of the soldiers who laid down their lives for our motherland. We should be proud of them.

I perform for soldiers because they are important.

In Iraq and Afghanistan, our soldiers signed up intentionally. That's a huge difference from the largely conscripted army of my era.

My church has an historical emphasis on peace, but we can't enjoy peace without honoring the blood our soldiers shed for it.

When Soldiers serve, their families serve too.

My dad and grandpa were in the army and as a country singer you're constantly playing at military bases all across the country and meeting soldiers and their families and hearing their stories.

All soldiers who serve their country and put their lives at risk need to know that if something happens to them, their families will be well taken care of. That's the bond we have with our military men and women and their families.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

Without the brave efforts of all the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines and their families, this Nation, along with our allies around the world, would not stand so boldly, shine so brightly and live so freely.

I think that some of our soldiers die in the battlefield and some come home to bad health and die prematurely, just by the nature of the kind of business they're in.

So the whole of war, when you look at it is probably run by professional soldiers, and the rest of them are just recruits, or people who are just forced to join the army.

If we're going to spend more money, it should go to the soldiers, Marines, and airmen to increase their salaries.

Our soldiers and their families are benefiting. They deserve good, quality housing and they need it.