"Ensure that no Marine who honorably wore the eagle, globe and anchor is lost to the Marine Corps family." - James L. Jones

#Commandant #VietnamWarHistory #RetiredMarine #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

#WW2Veterans #USMilitary #WorldWarII #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again." - Grover Cleveland

#AmericanCivilWar #PullmanStrike #VeteranFamily #Veterans #WordsOfVeterans

Over 40 countries served in Afghanistan! 40,000 of them Aussies. #vets #veteranheroes #veteranfamily

"We do not have to become heroes overnight." - Eleanor Roosevelt

#USActivist #USFirstLady #Veterans #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"I'm actually for gun control -- use both hands." - Rick Perry

#USGovernor #TexasPolitician #USAirForceOfficer #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"A cause worth fighting for is worth fighting for to the end." - Grover Cleveland

#USPresident #PoliticalActivist #Veterans #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government." - Taylor Branch

#VeteranFamily #USMilitary #Military #MilitaryPeople #WordsOfVeterans

"Battles are never the end of war; for the dead must be buried and the cost of the conflict must be paid." - James A. Garfield

#UnionArmy #CivilWar #UnitedStatesArmy #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was." - Maya Lin

#VietnamVeteransMemorial #CivilRightsMemorial #Veterans #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work." - Henry L. Stimson

#WorldWarII #SecretaryOfWar #WorldWarI #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"Self-preservation is the first principle of our nature." - Alexander Hamilton

#AmericanWar #USNavy #USMilitary #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest." - William McKinley

#SpanishAmericanWar #AmericanCivilWar #USArmy #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

#NationalWomensSmallBusinessMonth #WomenInBusiness #CommunityLeadership #ServiceAndCommunity #Nebraska #GretnaNE #GretnaCommunity #SubstituteTeachers #AirForceSpouse #VeteranFamily #ServingTogether #SmallBusinessOwner #LocalBusiness #ShopLocal #WomenWhoLead #LeadershipInAction #InspiringWomen

"How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!" - Maya Angelou

#GreatDepression #WorldWarII #USCivilRights #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"Appeasement only makes the aggressor more aggressive." - Dean Rusk

#USColonel #USArmy #WarDepartment #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime." - Adlai E. Stevenson

#USMilitary #USNavy #AmericanMilitary #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"Confusion in battle is what pain is in childbirth - the natural order of things." - Maurice Tugwell

#ParachuteRegiment #Veteran #WordsOfVeterans #veteranFamily #VeteransDay

"Nations, like individuals, are punished for their transgressions." - Ulysses S. Grant

#MilitaryLeader #UnionArmy #USPresident #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security." - George McGovern

#USMilitary #VietnamWar #USArmy #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"If one road led to hell and the other to Mexico, I would be indifferent which to take." - Nathan B. Forrest

#Confederate #AmericanCivilWar #ConfederateArmy #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"Good work ain't cheap, cheap work ain't good." - Sailor Jerry

#USNavy #SailorTattoo #PunchbowlCrater #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"I'm perfectly willing to say no more Iraqs, which means no more unilateral starting of the war on false claims, false information, and a complete misunderstanding of the nature of the situation in the region." - Zbigniew Brzezinski

#ColdWar #USMilitary #USRevolution #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"We cannot be both the world's leading champion of peace and the world's leading supplier of the weapons of war." - Jimmy Carter

#USNavalAcademy #USNavy #CivilRightsMovement #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"All men are born equally free." - Salmon P. Chase

#AmericanPolitician #Abolitionist #Veterans #WordsOfVeterans #VeteranFamily

“It is simply unthinkable that we will ever again send overseas a great expeditionary force of armed men.” - Frank Knox

#SecretaryOfTheNavy #SpanishAmericanWar #UnitedStatesArmy #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

"We don't start a job that we can't finish... that's the American way." - Paul Wolfowitz

#IraqWar #SecretaryOfDefense #WWI #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

“I didn't shoot anybody, no sir . . . I'm just a patsy.” - Lee Harvey Oswald

#USMarine #USAirForce #KoreanWar #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

“I am the living death, a Memorial Day on wheels. I am your Yankee Doodle Dandy, your John Wayne come home, your Fourth of July firecracker exploding in the grave.” - Ron Kovic

#VietnamWarVeteran #AntiWarActivist #USMarine #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans

“A rich man's war and a poor man's fight.” - Shelby Foote

#ShelbyFoote #CivilWar #TheCivilWar #VeteranFamily #WordsOfVeterans