Daniel J. Evans Quotes

When I was 17, I was told I had the choice of enlisting in the Navy or going to jail, so I spent the next three years in the Navy.

My father-in-law was a nuclear-submarine captain. My father was in the military.

I was a radioman first class in the Navy. I put in seven years. I was around a lot of admirals; I served on destroyers, cruisers, and a flat top for a little while.

My dad served in the Australian Navy until I was a toddler.

After the United States entered the war, I joined the Naval Reserve and spent ninety days in a Columbia University dormitory learning to be a naval officer.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

I received my parents' permission and went into the Navy on June 3, 1941.

I'm glad I was in the Navy.

You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later, he was commanding a theater of war.

My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do.

I was a soldier in WWII. The last couple of months of the war I was actually in combat.

Part of my head will always be in the years after World War II - the five years before Korea started.

I got out of the Navy in 1990.

When I left the army, I left for good.

After 21 years, six months and 10 days of active military service, I am now a civilian.

I began serving my country when I was 18 years old and entered the U.S. Naval Academy.

Western Europe has been redefining the nation state since 1945 when it formed the European Union following World War II.

When the Second World War came to an end in Europe, my uncle Sir Alexander Korda was the first filmmaker to reopen offices in Germany and Austria.

Of course, when I joined the Navy and when I took up the correspondence course in cryptography, I had to sign an oath that I would never reveal what sort of work I was involved in. It was only some years after the war that Congress passed a statute relieving me of that obligation.

As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.

I was in the Pacific. The Pacific Theater, as they say.

My grandmother was British and in the Women's Auxiliary Royal Air Force in World War II.

My grandmother is British. She was in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. That's where she met my grandfather, who was sailing for the British Royal Navy. She was a war bride.

When I became a soldier, I was drafted in 1937, and instead of being released two years later, I had to stay on because the war had started in the meantime. I was a soldier for more than eight years, as long a time as I was Chancellor.

I spent two and a half years in the Philippines in World War II.