Daniel J. Evans Quotes

I was drafted during the Korean War.

The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.

I proudly served in the United States Army during the Korean War as an artillery operations specialist in the all-black 503rd Field Artillery Battalion in the Second Infantry Division.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

I was a lieutenant in World War II.

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.

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.

I always feel I had a very lucky life. For example, I sure didn't want to go in the army: when I was drafted in the Korean War, I wanted to go as a photographer. But luckily, they put me in the infantry - luckily because the official photographer was photographing the medal awarding and all the official situations.

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'

Shall This Continue? Join the Navy.

Vietnam was my nightmare for a good ten years.

Remember this about the Korean War: The men were drafted; the women volunteered.

I made hats until I went into the Army. I was drafted during the Korean War.

When I was 18, I went into the army as a payroll clerk because otherwise I was headed for Korea.

I had spent years in the United States military. Specifically in the U.S. Navy.

Obviously my dad served in the Korean War. He was a Master Sergeant when he was 18 years old.

I wore the cloth of the nation for over 31 years in peace and war, from the Vietnam and Cold War eras, to Afghanistan and Iraq, and the emergence of China.

At 19, I joined the Air Force during the Vietnam War.

My father fought alongside Aussie and U.S. soldiers in the Vietnam War.

I grew up knowing my grandfather had served our country for decades in the Navy, buried in his whites in Arlington; I have family members who are veterans.

If Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, and George W. Bush had ever been in combat themselves, they might not have sent troops to Iraq.

All able bodied male citizens … are hereby declared to be the National Forces.

MacArthur told Truman that the ‘boys will be home by Christmas’. Truman forgot to ask, ‘which Christmas?’ They are still there today.

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

My work as a naval officer in World War II enabled me to serve on 49 different South Pacific islands so that I came to know the area about as well as anyone.