Sometimes it takes more courage to get up and run than to stay. You either just do it or you don't. I got so scared the first day in combat I just decided to go along with it.

And freedom is what America means to the world.

No soldier ever really survives a war.

I was scared before every battle. That old instinct of self-preservation is a pretty basic thing, but while the action was going on some part of my mind shut off and my training and discipline took over. I did what I had to do.

After the war, they took Army dogs and rehabilitated them for civilian life. But they turned soldiers into civilians immediately, and let em sink or swim.

I'll tell you what bravery really is. Bravery is just determination to do a job that you know has to be done.

They were singing in French, but the melody was freedom and any American could understand that.