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    "We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction."

    - General Douglas MacArthur
    More than 5 years ago by Nellas_Ancalimon.  ID#:69655

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    -Only the dead have seen the end of war-

    - Plato
    More than 10 years ago by Septyc  ID#:7943

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    I don't know how world war 3 will be fought. But I do know how world war 4 will be fought, with sticks and stones.

    - Albert Einstein
    More than 5 years ago by alayna  ID#:27902

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    Older men declare war. But it is the youth who must fight and die.

    - Herbert Hoover
    More than a year ago by UsMarine9  ID#:181469

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    "My Lord! We're surrounded!!"
    "Excellent! Now we can attack in any direction"

    - Unknown
    More than a year ago by arinom  ID#:363453

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    Silence is argument carried out by other means.

    - Ernesto"Che"Guevara (1928-1967)
    More than 10 years ago by hotkittycock69  ID#:4149

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    There are three things in this world that I hate. Fools, liars and traitors.
    A fool I can teach, a liar I can forgive, but a traitor I would shoot, as he is both a fool and a liar...

    - A general whose name is lost in memory.
    More than 5 years ago by somedude88  ID#:139153

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    Marines fight not because they hate what is in front of them, but because they love what is behind them.

    - unknown
    More than a year ago by NightWolf077  ID#:243135

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    "In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock ..."

    - Orson Welles
    More than 5 years ago by kwiz  ID#:12376

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    When in England at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked
    by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of 'empire building' by George Bush.
    He answered by saying, "Over the years, the United States has sent
    many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for
    freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return was enough to bury those that did not return."
    You could have heard a pin drop.
    There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break one of the French engineers came back into the room saying, "Have you heard the latest
    dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do, bomb them?"
    A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly, "Our carriers have three
    hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are
    nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore
    facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people
    three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen
    helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from
    their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?"
    You could have heard a pin drop.
    A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included
    Admirals from the U.S. , English, Canadian, Australian and French
    Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large
    group of Officers that included personnel from most of those countries.
    Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a
    French admiral suddenly complained that, "Whereas Europeans learn many
    languages, Americans learn only English." He then asked, "Why is it
    that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than
    speaking French?"
    Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied, "Maybe it's
    because the Brits, Canadians, Aussies and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German."
    You could have heard a pin drop.
    A group of Americans, retired teachers, recently went to France on a
    tour. Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by
    plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on.
    "You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer
    asked sarcastically.
    Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously.
    "Then you should know enough to have your passport ready."
    The American said, "The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."
    "Impossible. Americans always have to show your passports on arrival
    in France !"
    The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he
    quietly explained, "Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in
    '44 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find any Frenchmen to
    show it to."
    You could have heard a pin drop.
    What Is a Veteran?
    A "Veteran" '' whether active duty, discharged, retired, or
    reserve'' is someone who, at one point in his life, wrote a blank check made
    payable to "The United States of America," for an amount of "up
    to, and including his life."
    That is honor, there are too many people that don't get that.

    - ???
    More than a year ago by gtshoei2  ID#:190353
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