Bud Grant Quotes

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.

Avenge Pearl Harbor! : Join the navy now!

We couldn't go to war without them, and we couldn't win without them.

One thing that was amazing about World War II was that everybody signed up for the duration plus six months. Fliers got to leave combat after 25 missions, or 35 missions, but other than that, you were in it. You were part of the great effort, until, oh boy, six months after it was over.

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

I received my draft notice right after graduation from college and had three months before going into the Army in September to think about it.

It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.

Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

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

If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.

Washington crossed the Delaware to win our freedom : we cross oceans to keep it : Buy war stamps & bonds

The Yanks are coming And we won’t come back till it’s over Over there!

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

Your King and Country need you.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die. And it is youth who must inherit the tribulations, the sorrow, and the triumphs that are the aftermath of war.

Infantry, Artillery, Aviation--all that we have--are yours to dispose of as you will.... I have come to say to you that the American people would be proud to be engaged in the greatest battle in history.

The certain way to victory...lies in making everything on Imperial soil contribute to the war effort...combining the total material and spiritual strength of the nation...

For a soldier I enlisted, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day.

All excess income should go to win the war [WWII].

When my father served in World War II, he wasn't told, 'Go to Europe for four months, for six months, and then you can come back, and there'll be plenty of big bases there for you to serve on, and don't worry about it.'

I once interviewed my grandma for a class project about the Second World War. After 70 years filled with marriage, children, grandchildren, death, poverty and triumph, the thing about which she was unquestionably the proudest and most excited was that she and her family did their part during the war.

When you're at war you do what it takes to win.

My two grandfathers fought in World War II.

War was a way of life for Americans in the early forties. Heroism was expected.

My fascination with war is because my dad was in World War II, and my brother was in Vietnam.