Joe Walsh Quotes

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.

Please God, I'll never be in a war zone, but everything I sort of know about people who come back is that it's a hard transition to make. I mean, even if you've not been in a war, even if you've just been in the Forces, you come back and probably have more fights in civilian life.

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

When I first came back from Iraq, I of course found myself thinking a lot about it. Not just my experiences, but those of people I talked to, friends, and colleagues.

When I came back from Vietnam in 1965, I just had the greatest brainwashing anybody could get…

My father had gone to Vietnam.

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.

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

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

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

It's very strange getting out of the military, when you've lived in Iraq, and people you know are going overseas again and again. Some of them are getting injured.

No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.

You're in a combat zone one day. You come home, and then you have to readjust, and it takes a few days. We just sit in the house, hang with the family and then things get better.

Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.

That's driven by any number of factors, the most prominent of which have been the combat experience of two major campaigns - one in Afghanistan and the other in Iraq - and the ongoing demands of the global war on terrorism.

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 am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

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

If you are a real soldier, you never get over the war.

The militiaman is best employed at his plough

Tragedies ensure in wars. And we’ve seen it in every war. That’s why those who have known war hate it the most.

More soldiers died last year by their own hand than at the hands of the enemy…. More than 22 veterans commit suicide every day.

My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home.