I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings. But if they didn't ask me about something, I wasn't about to reveal things that would put other people in jeopardy.

Without any intended hubris, I've lead a pretty exciting life. What I've tried to do in Mission Compromised is draw on those experiences to create a sense of excitement and realism within the story.

For better or worse, most people’s lives seem to turn out rather differently from what they had expected.

For a radical Jihadist, this fight is all about dying the right way while killing an infidel. For us, it’s all about living the right way because all the dying necessary was done for us two thousand years ago on a hill called Calvary.

I haven’t, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order – not one.

Compassion doesn’t take sides –.

I don’t think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.

And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them – in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

Heros aren’t defined by the way they die but how they live.

For some, a hero wears a spandex suit and a cape. My heroes wear flak jackets, flight suits, and combat boots.