175 quotes found
“Five GOP representative candidates this session have shocked me to my soul at how blatant they have trivialized rape. My prayers were answered in their defeat!”
“They shot one of ours. The lines deepened around his grey eyes. Id waste the whole army for spilling a drop of my crews blood.”
“I am a Christian, but my time in Iraq has convinced me that God doesn't want to hear from me anymore. I've done things that He can never forgive. I've done them consciously. I've made decisions I m...”
“Don't you think it's good to serve your country?' I asked. 'No, I don't,' Mr Peterson said. 'I think it's good to serve your principles. And in the army you don't get to pick and choose your fights...”
“Am I awake or dreaming? It doesnt matter anymore. When I close my eyes I dream of death and war. When I open my eyes I see death and war.”
“I can make Skell laugh if I really have to, but I have to take off one of his boots first.That went by just a little fast, Torl.Its terribly hard to tickle the bottom of a mans foot when hes wearin...”
“To hear them laugh was to hear that everything was all right, but to see them laugh was to see otherwise”
“Why, we're simply going to create an army of a million men. Conjure it up, I'm afraid, completely out of thin air.”
“it is better to recapture an army entire than to destroy it, to capture a regiment, a detachment or a company entire than to destroy them.”
“It was an article of faith with NCOs [noncommissioned officers] that they were better than their officers. And they were usually right. Certainly I had been happy with mine. They had done plenty of...”
“I fought to stay awake and keep the car on the road. And I thought back to texts I had read from the British Army in India, during the Raj, at the height of their empire. Young subalterns trapped i...”
“Back on the block they probably call Big Al "Fat Albert" but here in the Nam we don't insult our friends.”
“To where? We don't know. To do what? We don't know either. No one tells us anything. We just follow orders.”
“I'm always under surveillance from both the NSA, the Russian KGB, and the Bulgarian Army, so I'm the most invisible.”
“I fell in love with a sniper - a man whose basic training instills psychopathic tendencies. I loved a professional dehumanizer. I loved a man who lived in a world where empathy was suicide. I loved...”
“Who supports the troops? The troops support the troops.”
“I guess I was always looking for something. What it was, I didnt know. I wanted help from the VA, but didnt want to go back, didnt want to be subjected to that second-rate treatment any longer. I w...”
“I missed the war and the freedom that came with it. When you are that close to death, you feel free. Every breath you take could be your last. So you inhale and savor each breath, try not to think ...”
“I wanted people to know that we fired rounds into moving trucks and open windows to survive, not for anyone elses freedom. Not for the Democrats. Not for Republicans. Just to survive.”
“The other day, we went somewhere, and did something.”
