Bob Feller Quotes

Vets are close to my heart, okay, and it's not only because I served, okay. It's because of what they go through, okay. A lot of these people have gave their lives, a lot of them have gave their limbs, okay, you know, that's a, that's a, that's a heap, you know.

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.

Some made the ultimate sacrifice. The rest of us were lucky.

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

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

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

I wasn't a hero. I just got shot.

Soldiers know what war is like. That's why so many of them turn out to be peacemakers.

Nobody hates a war more than soldiers who have been through it.

My father made many narrow escapes during his time in Vietnam.

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

I was only a gun captain on the battleship Alabama for 34 months. People have called me a hero for that, but I'll tell you this - heroes don't come home. Survivors come home.

I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

I still have nightmares of dead comrades, a long time ago, talking to me. 'Emmanuel, don't forget about us, don't give up, keep telling our story.'

Wolverine is a world-weary old warrior. His rage issue notwithstanding, I see him as someone with the tortured soul of a poet, but one who has seen too many friends and lovers die. Even with that, he has grown into a leader and a true hero.

I was sick. I guess I was about to crack up thinking about all my good buddies. They were better men than me and they're not coming back. Much less back to the White House, like me.

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

I was interested in the war part of 'Star Wars,' so I started reading about what it's like to go to war, what that does to you psychically, about the adrenaline and the rush.

Doesn't it strike you as queer that I, who couldn't cut the head off a chicken, and who was sick at the sight of blood, should be cast into the middle of a great war, with blood flowing all about me.

For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' “Chuck him out, the brute!” But it's “Saviour of 'is country” when the guns begin to shoot.

And when the war is done and youth stone dead I'd toddle safely home and die—in bed.

Vietnam was my nightmare for a good ten years.

War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning

The real heroes of WWII never came home.