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• By my count, of the more than 600 English-language World War II movies made since 1940, only four have even acknowledged the humanity of the soldiers of Nippon. There may be a few I’ve missed, but not many.

  Stephen Hunter

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Acknowledged, Soldiers

• With soldiers, their wives are so fundamental in their relationships, and yet there’s this kind of other war happening back in the States, where wives of soldiers don’t quite understand what their husbands have been through, because their husbands won’t really talk about it, and that’s really the hidden war.

  Tim Hetherington

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Wives, Soldiers

• The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

  G. K. Chesterton

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Soldiers, Fighters, War

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

  Brooke Burke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Soldiers

• The soldiers that didn’t come back were the heroes. It’s a roll of the dice. If a bullet has your name on it, you’re a hero. If you hear a bullet go by, you’re a survivor.

  Bob Feller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Soldiers, Heroes

• I’m as interested in the families and communities that surround our soldiers.

  Robyn Carr

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  Tags in Soldiers, Interested, Families

• Soldiers are not policemen, and it’s very unfair, even for those soldiers who have some police training, to burden them with police duties. It’s not what they’re trained for, or equipped for.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Soldiers

• I’d like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick.

  Chris Shays

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in People, Sick, Soldiers

• Ministers regularly meet soldiers that have returned from operational tours to hear about their experiences, including those who have recovered from their injuries.

  Geoff Hoon

  Topics in Experience

  Tags in Ministers, Soldiers

• Patton was living in the Dark Ages. Soldiers were peasants to him. I didn’t like that attitude.

  Bill Mauldin

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Living, Soldiers

• But the admiration for Jackson was by no means confined to his own soldiers and to his own section.

  Daniel Harvey Hill

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Soldiers, Admiration

• 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.

  Gerald Scarfe

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Professional, Soldiers, Army

• The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

  Georg Brandes

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Soldiers, Interest

• I don’t think so, but it’s always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war’s about to get personal for me.

  Garry Trudeau

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Self, Mind, Soldiers

• Soldiers and peasants lived together on friendly terms; they knew each other and their everyday routines, and trusted each other; they shook their heads together over the war.

  Ernst Toller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Soldiers, Friendly, Trusted

• Gradually I became aware of details: a company of French soldiers was marching through the streets of the town. They broke formation, and went in single file along the communication trench leading to the front line. Another group followed them.

  Ernst Toller

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in French, Soldiers, Parade

• There cannot be any better cross-section of America and I think the soldiers represent the best we have. Today’s soldiers are brighter and smarter, perhaps in a different way, than past generations because they’ve been brought up in the computer and information age.

  Gerald Griffin

  Topics in America

  Tags in Soldiers

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  These soldiers deserve a better defense secretary than the one we have.

   

  Bill Kristol

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Soldiers, Defense

• Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

  William Lyon Mackenzie King

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Soldier, Soldiers

• How can faceless bureaucrats in an intelligence agency deny brave soldiers a chance to tell the truth?

  Curt Weldon

  Topics in Intelligence, Truth

  Tags in Brave, Soldiers