64 Quotes by Kyle Carpenter

I am a retired United States Marine Corporal and I started out in 2nd Battalion Night Marines on my deployment and I finished my career in the Marine Corps at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center as a patient.

The hardest part of my entire three-year recovery has been knowing that my parents, my brothers, were suffering through this burden of injury and recovery, something I volunteered for that they didn't ask for.

People always assume I was in a motorcycle wreck. My response to them: no, Taliban.

Be kind and help others. Let the ones you love know you love them.

I want my story to help others see what's extraordinary in themselves.

I was labeled 'P-E-A,' which is patient expired on arrival. I guess that's the politically correct way of saying you didn't make it.

As Marines, it's drilled into us... to take care of fellow Marines.

In the Marine Corps there is no individual effort, we're all a big team.

The military is a path of the unknown. I wasn't in denial about the risk.