“The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The example usually is: ''he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth.''”
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
“Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal”
Tupac Shakur
“When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.”
George Washington
“You're going to see it with reintegration as well. Just because we recover a Soldier, it doesn't stop there; when that Soldier comes home and goes through his rear detachment the personnel recovery mechanism is still doing a bunch of things to help reintegrate that Soldier, ... To make sure that he's taken care of.”
John Horton
“A higher percentage of those soldiers returning from Iraq report mental health concerns and use mental health services when they get home ... compared to soldiers who are returning from deployment to Afghanistan or other locations.”
Col. Charles Hoge
“Late this morning, two US soldiers were slightly wounded when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device or a hand grenade,”
Cindy Moore
“Late this morning, two US soldiers were slightly wounded when their vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device or a hand grenade, ... The explosion set fire to the vehicle.”