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I want to share some insight into why someone would want to be a SEAL. A lot of us faced obstacles growing up. I didn't have any type of real nurturing as a kid. I hope people will relate to my story and go, 'Hey, if this guy can do it, so can I.
I therefore beg that you would indulge me with the liberty of declining the arduous trust.
Being in the Marine Corps and doing the job I did, there is a lot of risk involved. It made me comfortable with risk.
Few of us will forget the wail of mingled grief, rage and horror which rose from the camp when the Indians returned to it and recognized their slaughtered warriors, women, and children.
No trooper, no special forces operative wants to sit behind a desk. We joined up to kick some doors down.
There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.
It may not be proper for me, perhaps, to let my feelings carry me further am therefore resigned to stop here, if sir, you think my particular reasons following too free, or will give offense to the House, which I would be sorry to be thought capable of intending.
I met someone from the German side and we both shared the same opinion: we fought, we finished and we were friends... It wasn't worth it.
Great things have been effected by a few men well conducted.
Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.
Swimming has its educational value - mental, moral, and physical - in giving you a sense of mastery over an element, and of power of saving life, and in the development of wind and limb.
My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life.
Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.
All quiet along the Potomac.
Great leaders know that adversity produces the greatest opportunities in life.
Gentlemen, I would rather have written those lines than take Quebec tomorrow.
In the following pages I have endeavoured to describe all that appeared to me most important and interesting among the events and the scenes that came under my notice during my sojourn in the interior of Africa.
My life is a series of things that just happen.
A lot of people these days are very much too wrapped up in cotton wool: people aren't pushed to their limits, and that's why we should find out where our limits lie.
I don't want to write every week, it's too much trouble, and I shall only write when I want something. If you think I'm sick when I don't write, you can send for me to come and tell you.
The object of all the former voyages to the South Seas undertaken by the command of his present majesty, has been the advancement of science and the increase of knowledge.
I don't like Communism because it hands out wealth through rationing books.
Give these Indians little farms, survey them, let them put fences around them, let them have their own horses, cows, sheep, things that they can call their own, and it will do away with tribal Indians.
You have to slow your heart rate, stay calm. You have to shoot in between your heartbeats.
I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization.
The drill instructor must have total and complete control. Mindless obedience is what he's after.
Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.
I, Philip Kearny, an old soldier, enter my solemn protest against this order for retreat.
I do not care to die, but I pray to God I may never leave this field.
Certainly our goal is to leave Iraq, but we can't leave Iraq with our forces until we know that the Iraqi security forces are capable and efficient enough to defend the sovereignty of the nation.
Israel cannot afford to stand against the entire world and be denounced as the aggressor.
Do you see those colors? Take them!
By some strange operation of magic I seem to have become the power of the land.
I had open heart surgery, exploratory surgery in my stomach, bilateral chest tubes... all this stuff.
If a policy is wrongheaded, feckless and corrupt, I take it personally and consider it a moral obligation to sound off and not shut up until it's fixed.
I have done what I felt to be my duty.
There are tens of thousands of interactions every single day across Afghanistan between the Afghan troops and International Security Assistance Force. On most of those, every single day we continue to deepen and broaden the relationship we seek.
I think the greatest of all human virtues is loyalty. It embraces all the best of the human character: courage, faith, love and charity.
I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.
The nurses at the hospital tried to soothe me, and they even tried unsuccessfully at one point to return me to Americans.
If you could have imagined that someone is happy that Obama is president, it has to be Jimmy Carter because he is no longer the worst president in our history.
Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.
Be thankful for what you have. Appreciate the small and simple things.
Well, it has been rather hectic since the 11th of September. And even before then it was quite busy.
There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.
Cows, after leaving the low lands near the coast, are found to be plentiful everywhere, and to produce milk in small quantities, from which butter is made.
Patriotism demands of us sustained sacrifice.
I don't think I was a hero. I was just doing my job.
You can't vote that water out of the city of New Orleans.
Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.
I'm glad that it didn't take as long to get Shepard off the ground as it's taken this series. I'd begun to think the Congo would be ahead of us in the space race before Whispering Smith ever got on the air.
Law in Ukraine is not black and white; it is shades of gray.
Love, indeed, lends a precious seeing to the eye, and hearing to the ear: all sights and sounds are glorified by the light of its presence.
The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.
I jump out of perfectly good airplanes, and it's a great thrill and it allows me to share in the dangers that our great men and women in uniform share in on a regular basis.
Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other.
During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.
I died on that mountain, too. I left a part of myself up there.
Such is my experience - not that I ever mourned the loss of a child, but that I consider myself as lost!
I don't care anything about being a Medal of Honor recipient, but if I can use that to help veterans get jobs, I will.