Steve Zahn Quotes

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.

I grew up in Boston in a very, very, very Marine town. So back in my neighborhood in Boston, a working-class neighborhood, when you got your draft notice, you went down, and you took your draft physical. And then, if you passed it, you joined the Marine Corps.

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

I wanted to be able to say I was a Marine.

Get off your butt and join the Marines!

I did 22 years in the military. I went through Paris Island. I'm a Marine. I will never not be one.

I was born military. I made up my mind right away, 'Im gong to do this for the rest of my life.'

Thirty days after high-school graduation, I went straight into the Marines.

I have just returned from visiting the Marines at the front, and there is not a finer fighting organization in the world!

I was born in a family with a strong military background, so I chose to be a soldier.

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.

I wanted to join the Army the sign said 'Be All That You Can Be', they told me it wasn't enough.

I joined the Marines the week I turned 17, and that led to a few experiences that might qualify as adventure - eye of the beholder.

Avenge Pearl Harbor! : Join the navy now!

I want you for US Army

The young people I work with every day and serve the nation in the armed forces in general, and the Marine Corps in particular, have broken the mold and stepped out as men and women of character who are making their own way in life while protecting ours.

My grandpa was a World War II paratrooper, my uncle a Vietnam Purple Heart recipient, my cousins both Marine Corps officers. I have some very close Navy SEAL connections as well.

I knew what I wanted to do with my life: I wanted to fight.

I went in the Marines when I was 16. I spent four and a half years in the Marines and then came right to New York to be an actor. And then seven years later, I got my first job.

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

I do not care whether you're a Democrat or you're a Republican or an independent. We must pull for the people who are wearing the uniform of the armed forces. These people weren't drafted. They enlisted, because they believe.

My brother was a captain in the Marine Corps and a very big hero in my life.

In World War II, the book you have in front of you, it was said and it is probably true, that there was not a single American who did not know the name of somebody serving in uniform.

President Reagan was concerned - deeply concerned, emotionally concerned - with the loss of life of any American, but especially with the lives of military soldiers, Marines, navy.

Freedom does not come without a price. We may sometimes take for granted the many liberties we enjoy in America, but they have all been earned through the ultimate sacrifice paid by so many of the members of our armed forces.