"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave." --Calvin Coolidge ++
"Honor to the soldier, and Sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor also to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field, and serves, as he best can, the same cause." --Abraham Lincoln ++
"...[L]et us solemnly remember the sacrifices of all those who fought so valiantly, on the seas, in the air, and on foreign shores, to preserve our heritage of freedom, and let us reconsecrate ourselves to the task of promoting an enduring peace so that their efforts shall not have been in vain. --Dwight D. Eisenhower ++
"Sir, I have not yet begun to fight!" --John Paul Jones ++
"The patriot volunteer, fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on earth." --Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson ++
"So, as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants." --Tacitus ++
"Breathes there the man with soul so dead, Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land!" --Walter Scott ++
"A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle." --George William Curtis ++
"There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create." --Charles Baudelaire ++
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." --Dwight D. Eisenhower ++
"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many, to so few." --Winston Churchill ++
"There never was a good war, or a bad peace." --Benjamin Franklin ++
"That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves." --Admiral Chester Nimitz
It is a gem of wisdom I have always loved. AIRBORNE!