#veteran

As a veteran, you're a little more poised on that mental side. But athletically, I didn't really think I could get better. ↗

— Angela Ruggiero

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I started a theater called Steppenwolf. We've been very supportive of the veterans there. ↗

— Gary Sinise

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Although AmeriCorps is making a difference among its participants and the people they serve, we must address homelessness and the need for job training among our veterans. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

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There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it. ↗

— Charles Guggenheim

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In mid-May, the House of Representatives approved the full amount of money that the Veterans Administration said was needed for next year - plus an additional $1 billion increase for veterans' health care. ↗

— Doc Hastings

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The Veteran's History Project, a nationwide volunteer effort to collect oral histories from America's war veterans, provides an avenue to do just that. Now in its fifth year, the Project has collected more than 40,000 individual stories. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

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I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy. ↗

— James Longstreet

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Finally, I wish to remember the millions of Allied servicemen and prisoners of war who lived the story of the Second World War. Many of these men never came home; many others returned bearing emotional and physical scars that would stay with them for the rest of their lives. I come away from this book with the deepest appreciation for what these men endured, and what they scarified, for the good of humanity. It is to them that this book {Unbroken} is dedicated, ↗

— Laura Hillenbrand

#veterans #world-war- #men

There are no lazy veteran lion hunters. ↗

— Norman Ralph Augustine

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America's trying to do the best for its veterans. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

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