"You'll never get a Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!"
- Capt. Henry P. Crowe, USMC. Guadalcanal, 13 January 1943
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"You'll never get a Purple Heart hiding in a foxhole! Follow me!"
- Capt. Henry P. Crowe, USMC. Guadalcanal, 13 January 1943
"Army: A body of men assembled to rectify the mistakes of the diplomats."
- Josephus Daniels
I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to "Anarchy" or "Despotism."
George Washington
"I don't know why I got a medal, all I wanted was to get home alive."
Shalom David
Israeli paratrooper awarded after the battle of "Ammunition Hill",
one of the bloodiest fights in the 1967 war.
"I feel not a person but an instrument of destiny"
- Charles DeGaulle on entering Paris in 1944
"The graveyards are full of indispensable men"
- Charles deGaulle
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
- G K Chesterton
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
• Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
- Dwight D Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower:
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it
Colin Powell:
Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
Norman Schwarzkopf:
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
The eagle shits on friday,,,,,,,,,,,,