89 Quotes About Veterans


  • Author Javier Cercas
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    I was about to tell her that Miralles hadn't fought in one war, but many, but I couldn't, because I suddenly saw Miralles walkingacross the Libyan desert towards the Murzuk oasis- young, ragged, dusty and annonymous, carrying the tricolour flag of a country not his own, of a country that is all countries and also the country of liberty and which only exists because he and four Moors and a black guy are raising that flag as they keep walking onwards, onwards, ever onwards.

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  • Author Abraham Lincoln
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    Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

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  • Author Aleksandr Voinov
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    What about the scar … in my face.” He managed to force out, couldn’tfind the words, no better nor easier way to ask and even plead. Do you want me.Do you honestly still want me?Please, want me.

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  • Author Siegfried Sassoon
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    You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by,Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

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