As a reporter, I embedded for modest stints with American soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq. When I'm asked about those experiences, I always say - and mean - that we civilians don't deserve the soldiers we have.
While I was serving in the Florida Senate, American soldiers were being killed in Iraq, a war we should have never started, and often by Iranian proxies and their improvised explosive devices.
There were almost 11,000 American soldiers killed in Germany in April of 1945, the last full month of the war. That's almost as many as died in June, 1944. Right to the very end, it was absolutely brutal.
The Japanese government has accepted the notion that Japan is the loser, and it appears to be going to accept unconditional surrender. Such a position frustrates the officers and soldiers of the imperial armed forces.
We've had soldiers that were so badly hurt and killed. I want their families to get something.
When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.
Soldiers generally win battles; generals get credit for them.
The worst... was what the Pakistani soldiers did to the Bengali women after their failed rebellion.
The whole idea that the rescue was staged or the soldiers were shooting blanks, that's just obvious stuff. Why would you do that in the middle of a war? It's just crazy.
Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.
God has given such brave soldiers to this Crown that, if they do not frighten our neighbours, at least they prevent us from being frightened by them.
In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into a committee for the purpose of watching the movements of the British soldiers, and gaining every intelligence of the movements of the Tories.
I trust the integrity of the British government and the British soldiers.
I write back to all the soldiers who write to me and send them posters and calendars.
Guatemala's ornate presidential palace, once a terrifying fortress whose every corridor was patrolled by heavily armed soldiers in berets and camouflage uniforms, is now a normal public building where ordinary citizens enter without fear.
While I was serving, I worked as an adventure training officer, teaching soldiers how to ski, canoe and climb.
Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.
Even when I'm sitting up in this glass castle, I still got my street soldiers telling me what's happening.
Caution and cynicism are safe, but soldiers don't want to follow cautious cynics.
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.