Soldiers Quotations | Page 5

Most of the soldiers we're going to see came back two months ago and have had time to demobilize, ... Their needs will be different than those who have just returned.

Most of the soldiers my age are closer to retirement. It's a paradox. I'm just beginning my Army career.

I think it is right that the people of Derry should expect those people who ordered soldiers to come here and kill 14 people and wound 14 more should be accountable before the law.

We'll deal with it the same way we have been dealing with it -- by being transparent, up front and open about our policies and what our soldiers do.

Desertion is the army's dirty little secret. Since the beginning of the Iraq war, more than 20,000 American soldiers have given up the fight. Most of them disappear while at home on leave, fading into a network of family and friends, and the army does not typically chase them down.

The violence and burnings in Lebanon were the work of Syrian soldiers and workers dressed in civilian clothes.

Glen and I live together and we have known each other since we were small, 13 years old. And we just have a relationship like we're blood brothers. We battle for each other and we call each other soldiers - they never leave a man behind. Glen just told me it was time to go to war. We both understood it was time to fight and when he fights, I fight.

For me to be in a room with those soldiers standing over there -- it's almost like you're there with them, and I think that's unbelievably powerful.

If it were in our national security to deploy to South Africa under apartheid, would we have found it acceptable or customary to segregate African American soldiers from other American soldiers, and say, 'It's just a cultural thing'? I don't think so. I would hope not.

I give them to all the soldiers and tell them to shoot these bullets and come save me. And they come save me.