16 May 09
"A veteran is someone who, at one point in one's life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life." That is honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it." --Author unknown.
"A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed." --John F. Kennedy
"Because as I look around at the state of this nation and see all of the weak little pampered candy-asses that are whining about this or protesting that, I’d be afraid to leave the fate of this nation entirely up to them." -- A US soldier in Iraq stating why he re-enlisted.
"For those who have fought for it, freedom has a flavor the protected will never know." -- Unknown
It is the Soldier, not the reporter who has given us freedom of press. It is the Soldier, not the poet who has given us freedom of speech. It is the Soldier, not the campus organizer who gives us freedom to demonstrate. It is the Soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and who's coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag. -- Father Dennis Edward O'Brien
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