[rottndog]

All I can find so far is "Author Unknown". There are hints that it was Walt Whitman, but as yet I have been unable to find it.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Snoopers-868th]

I found this: ‘For those who have served, freedom has a taste-—and a price-—that the protected will never know.’

(Found written on a piece of C-Rat box cardboard, and nailed to a tree outside a firebase near Khe Sahn, RVN,
>1965.)”

Link: http://vision2020.moscow.com/Archives/2002/0212/msg00072.html

[Snoopers-868th]

And I found this: “For those who fought for it, freedom has a taste the protected will never know.”
— Willie “Bo” Nelson, Mancelona, MI

HERE: http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a3b69fe193338.htm

[Snoopers-868th]

Then there is this: “For those who have fought for it,
freedom has a taste the protected will never know.”
- An American Soldier in Iraq, 2003

Found here: http://www.burdickfamily.org/military.html

I appears that “Author Unknown” may just be your answer. Good luck.

[deport]

Possible answer:

Unknown author For those who manned the battle line the bugle whispers low-— and Freedom has a taste and price the protected never know.. It’s not from “Song Of Myself”- by Walt Whitman From the book “Leaves of Grass” ...(Answered by Blah)

http://education.answerbox.net/education-search-protect-396545214.htm

[Brad from Tennessee]

I used to see this quote written on helmets covers in Vietnam.