Ruth Westheimer Quotes

I wonder if a soldier ever does mend a bullet hole in his coat?

I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

My gun trainer on the first 'G.I. Joe' gave me about a week of commando training, so I got to shoot every single machine gun and hand gun there was.

I have been wounded altogether twenty times; eleven of these wounds were received at Northfield.

People want to hear what I do with Special Forces, as a ranger, as a sniper. And I'm like 'What does that have to do with fighting?' Let's talk about fighting. They couldn't be more different; there's nothing similar about them.

I'm a combat soldier.

I served as a Marine sniper for three years, and I believe the film 'American Sniper' depicted what we do perfectly.

I'm an eight-year Green Beret, Ranger, sniper.

Just saw American Sniper. Powerful. Another view of Coming Home. Bradley Cooper sensational. Bravo Clint Eastwood.

The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry.

I know that nobody who hasn't been in battle or under attack can know what war is. But even in terms of being safe at home, it's also true that many Americans who think they know what being at war is, don't. Including, of course, George W. Bush and his people. They don't have a clue.

My father was a builder. During my high school years, I worked for him. One summer, I was working with a guy who had just come back from Vietnam and had been a tunnel rat. He wouldn't talk about the experience, but it sounded really scary to me.

I was raised in the paratroopers.

When I read the script of 'The Wall,' I saw how much different the war looks from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

As we began to read more and more journals of men who had been in the Civil War and then been in the Indian Wars, we realized there was a whole universe of men whose souls had been shattered, whose lives had been utterly destroyed by what they had to do.

As a former Captain in the Army National Guard, I trained hundreds of soldiers to lead troops into combat.

My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.

I'm a super good shot.

I am a very good sniper, and I can put five bullets into that red circle and I know how to throw hand grenades.

My parents are both war veterans; they met in Vietnam. They were involved in a war that they absolutely disagreed with.

I was sent to Korea, which was excellent training for what came later. I was assigned to remain on duty until I completed one hundred combat missions - or got knocked out - whichever came first.

In the Army, I learned how to use and respect my rifle.

As a Navy SEAL, and sniper, one of the things I learned was that excellence matters.

I think the major event that shaped my life was being a Naval aviator. I got my commission and wings at 18 years old, and then I went into combat at 19. And I think, as I look back on it, that whole experience probably shaped my life more than any incident, or any event.