Dan Crenshaw Quotes

People always assume I was in a motorcycle wreck. My response to them: no, Taliban.

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

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

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

My father had gone to Vietnam.

I was in the Navy and saw, first-hand, the effects of front-line combat.

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.

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

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.

There were a lot of hard times, and having to have a team of people help me out of the bed, having to use a bedpan is a really tough thing to swallow. But looking back, I'm proud of my scars and what myself and my Marines went through in Marjah.

You know, I had gone to war.

Having been in the military myself, there is an awful moment when you're in this moment of conflict.

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

What you experience in the army, aged 18 to 21, is what you take through all your life. You cross invisible lines: you shoot someone, get shot, break into people's houses. It's naive to think you won't carry anything into your life.

I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.

People who need therapy are in Afghanistan. They've seen horrible human cruelty and degradation, but they don't have time or the money for therapy.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.

My younger brother is a decorated combat veteran and was a platoon leader in Iraq.

That soldiers do terrible things during wartime should not surprise us.

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

Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.

My experience on 'Jarhead' was life changing.

But to the fighting soldier that phase of the war is behind. It was left behind after his first battle. His blood is up. He is fighting for his life, and killing now for him is as much a profession as writing is for me.

The true credit for our safety and security goes to our men and women who are serving in places like Iraq and Afghanistan in the global war on terrorism.