Jon Porter Quotes

None of the Americans I spoke to want to nominate their sons for the Unknown Soldier.

America is unique in the history of the world. During this last century, there was only one nation that laid down hundreds of thousands of lives of its own sons and daughters and asked for nothing for itself …. America is unique. You took no land from the Germans, no land from the Japanese. All you asked for was enough land to bury your dead.

More than a million Americans have died in our wars—each one much loved by someone.

I was told my son was killed in the war on terror. He was killed by George Bush's war of terror on the world.

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

I think that you can honour the sacrifices of a common soldier without glorifying war.

We have long honored those who gave their lives during the unfortunate reality of war.

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

The heroes of Flight 93 won the first battle in the War on Terror, and they should never be forgotten.

My church has an historical emphasis on peace, but we can't enjoy peace without honoring the blood our soldiers shed for it.

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced.

I suppose it is the lot of soldiers and Marines to be objectified according to the politics of the day and the mood of the American people about their war.

Whither depart the souls of the brave that die in the battle, Die in the lost, lost fight, for the cause that perishes with them?

Lest I keep my complacent ways I must remind myself.. Someone out there died for me today As long as there is war.. I ask and I must answer.. Was I worth dying for?

Military cemeteries in every corner of the world are silent testimony to the failure of national leaders to sanctify human life.

It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be US Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate.

It is a sacred duty to see that each of our dead comrades is escorted through the pearly gates by a large, a very large number of enemy dead. It is up to us now and here after to produce these escorts for the heroic slain.

Politicians didn’t want to talk to their constituents about body bags that would be coming back.

You can always hear the people who are willing to sacrifice somebody else's life. They're plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That's their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously. They shall not have died in vain. Our noble dead.

It's always the old to lead us to the war It's always the young to fall Now look at all we've won with the sabre and the gun Tell me is it worth it all.

Go, stranger, and to Lacedaemon [Sparta] tell That here, obeying her laws, we fell.

My message was one of death for young men. How odd it is to applaud that.

The real heroes of WWII never came home.

No man wants more war if he's planned memorial services for fallen comrades, carried their flag-draped caskets off a plane, and buried them at Arlington National Cemetery.

Sen. Akaka never forgot the cost of war on our country.