To: ATCNavyRetiree
Donno who said it, but its the last line in the movie Bridges at Toko Ri. Excellent movie.
To: ATCNavyRetiree
"I don't know why such fine young men get killed. There are so many battles left to fight."
3 posted on
04/03/2003 6:21:28 PM PST by
sinkspur
To: ATCNavyRetiree
Patton to Chaplain: "Because of my intimate relations with the Almighty, I can assure you, if you write a good prayer, we'll have good weather. Now, I want that Goddamned prayer by 0-600."
To: ATCNavyRetiree
This all the toilet paper in a MRE?
5 posted on
04/03/2003 6:26:50 PM PST by
noutopia
To: ATCNavyRetiree
"We can forgive you for killing our children, but we can never forgive you for making us kill your children"
-Golda Maier
-Prime Minister Israel
6 posted on
04/03/2003 6:29:09 PM PST by
3k9pm
To: ATCNavyRetiree
This does not mean we are warmongers. On the contrary, the soldier above all other people prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.
But always in our ears ring the ominous words of Plato, that wisest of all philosophers: Only the dead have seen the end of war...
Duty, Honor, Country. 1962
General MacArthur
7 posted on
04/03/2003 6:42:28 PM PST by
just me
To: ATCNavyRetiree
Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more. -- Gen George S. Patton.
To: ATCNavyRetiree
Duty is ours; the consequences are God's.
-Stonewall Jackson-
To: ATCNavyRetiree
"Americans love a winner and will not tolerate a loser. Americans play to win all the time."General George S. Patton, Jr. 3rd Army speech
England, 31 May 1944
6th Armored Division
13 posted on
04/04/2003 8:16:07 AM PST by
MotleyGirl70
(If you like the French raise your left hand, if you ARE French raise both hands!!!!!!!!!)
To: ATCNavyRetiree
"War to the knife; knife to the hilt."
Nathan Bedford Forrest
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