Don Rickles Quotes

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

As a combat veteran, I know the cost of war.

Let it be remembered, too, that at a time of war, nearly every one is under great strain.

A professional soldier understands that war means killing people, war means maiming people, war means families left without fathers and mothers.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

I didn't see conflict during the Vietnam War, but I did lose close friends.

There's nothing glorious about war. There's nothing glorious about holding your friends in your arms and watching them die. There's nothing glorious about having to leave your home for 6 to 8 months while your family's back here and you're away.

Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

In the Marine Corps, you meet this really broad segment of the country; you're working with people from all kinds of backgrounds. And it exposes you to the American military, particularly the American military at war.

War isn't just about bravery and courage and jingoism and patriotism. It's also fundamentally about grief. And the people that go and do the fighting and the dying are never the people who actually benefit from the fighting and the dying.

It's always the generals with the bloodiest records who are the first to shout what a hell it is. And it's always the war widows who lead the Memorial Day parades.

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

I'm glad I never went to war.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge respect for him, and he's shared some personal experiences with me.

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

I have gone through so many examinations of what a hero is, between the World War II stuff and the astronaut stuff.

Sacrifice is going to war for your country. Sacrifice is a brave young man being blown up by a landmine in Afghanistan.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

I’m no hero. Hero’s don’t return from war. Survivors do.

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

Both of my grandfathers served in World War II, both in the Pacific. One wouldn't talk about it, and one would.