Quotes About Soldier

Learn the psychological damage that war does, and work to prevent war. There is no contradiction between hating war and honoring the soldier. Learn how war damages the mind and spirit, and work to change those things in military institutions and culture that needlessly create or worsen these injuries. We don't have to go on repeating the same mistakes.

Honer and self sacrifice. Death does not diminish these qualities in a soldier. We shall remember.

There's one other thing," I said. "Your father was wrong." "My father? Wrong about what?" "You said to me that he once told you that nobody ever thanks a soldier." I paused. "I want to thank you...for what you tried to do and what you did do. Thank you.

This is why you have procedure, training and drill, so that you do things when your brain is too shocked to think for itself—ask any soldier.

This is why you have procedure, training and drill, so that you do things when your brain is too shocked to think for itself – ask any soldier. I stepped outside into the daylight.

Fear is the mother of all emotion. Before love, hate, spite, grief, rage, and all the rest, there was fear, and fear gave birth to them all, and ask every combat soldier knows there are as many incarnations and species of fear as the Eskimo language has words for snow.

Like a soldier standing long under fire, any change comes as a relief.

A professional soldier with formidable powers of recall, after each cozy and informal chat with the Führer, Oshima compiled a detailed update on Hitler's military thinking and planning, which was encrypted and sent by wireless, with German approval, to the Japanese Foreign Office. These reports were read with avid interest in Tokyo—and Washington and London.

One account exists of how a French soldier disarmed one of the warriors only to have her take him down with a judo shoulder throw and tear out his jugular with her teeth.

On Sunday, 11 May 1947, he drove into the forest on the outskirts of Berlin in order to indulge his passion for birds. He was to have an unwelcome surprise as he crept through the undergrowth, when the sudden bark of a Soviet soldier demanded to know what he was doing.

An old, old formula came to mind, from back when I was very young indeed. "I am a soldier." I said it first in the language I had spoken then, then repeated myself in Sleepy's own Dejagoran dialect. "I've been distracted before. I'm still alive.

Oh, it's a soldier's life for me. Oh, the adventure and glory! It

scruff of the neck and seat of the pants, and ran him out the door to the accompaniment of appropriate old-time remarks about seedy little army types who failed to acknowledge the natural superiority of their overlords, the Marines.

He was, as soldier and man, all of a piece

The lieutenant said, 'Have you seen enough?' speaking savagely, almost as though I had been responsible for these deaths. Perhaps to the soldier the civilian is the man who employs him to kill, who includes the guilt of murder in the pay-envelope and escapes responsibility.

A soldier in the Eleventh Corps hospital watched for a while as a preacher there was attempting to obtain food and other needed items for the large number of wounded men. This private was Reuben Ruch of the 153rd Pennsylvania and he commented that this was the only time in his life, "when I thought a preacher was any benefit to his fellow man.

Dad was in the First World War in the Royal Field Artillery from 1914 to 1918, as well as uncle Leonard.

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

I know a lot about the Battle of the Bulge, and a lot about World War II from 'Saving Private Ryan.'

Jack Buck fought through Europe during World War II.

Our training is world-class across all the services. We spend an awful lot on every soldier, sailor, airman, Marine, Coast Guardsman that comes in, and we ask them to do an awful lot, sometimes more than we expect of ourselves, and they do that.

When the first armies were formed, combat took courage, which women share equally with men, and strength, which we do not. But though I am only 4 feet 7 inches tall, with a gun in my hand I am the equal of a soldier who's 6 feet 7 - perhaps even at a slight advantage, as I make a smaller target.

We must use all the tools of American power in resolving disputes, including diplomacy. And we must have sufficient congressional debate and oversight before ever putting another U.S. solider in harm's way.

More likely it was boxed in a closet after his death, an enduring embarrassment like a dead minister's porn stash or an old soldier's necklace of dried ears or collection of Nazi paraphernalia.