David Draiman Quotes

I have decorated soldiers for heroism before, and it was always such an honor to do it.

I hate it. I resent it. I refuse to tell anybody that I am a Medal of Honor recipient. I hate it.

A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon.

I wasn’t highly decorated. The highly decorated men are dead.

The Medal of Valor is this nation's highest and most prestigious award for public safety officers.

It's an amazing thing to hear they're finally giving out a Medal of Honor to a soldier from the wars of Iraq and Afghanistan.

When I was in my early twenties, I hoped one day to own a Victoria Cross, the ultimate decoration in Britain and the Commonwealth for bravery in the face of the enemy.

Before they got through with this thing, everybody got in the act.... They ordered over 7,000 medals to be awarded for an action that probably would have required 1,200 or 1,500 people.

I recommend that, in recognition of the signal act of heroism of First Lieutenant Frank H. Newcomb, United States Revenue Cutter Service, above set forth, the thanks of Congress be extended to him and to his officers and men of the HUDSON; and that a gold medal of honor be presented to Lieutenant Newcomb, and silver medal of honor to each of his crew who served with him at Cardenas .

I think it's long overdue, and I believed that Doris Miller should have been honored a long time ago.

As the president put the Medal of Honor around my neck, I felt the history and the weight of a nation.

The only reason anyone ever called me a hero is because I get this paper, here.

I saw some war heroes... John Kerry is not a war hero. He couldn't tie the shoes of some of the people in Coastal Division 11.

Colonel Jack Jacobs is a good guy. And I see him on occasion.

If I were the blushing kind, I would blush to be called a hero.

We invoke the sacrifices of our fallen heroes in the abstract, but we seldom take time to thank them individually.

It is impossible to strive for the heroic life. The title of hero is bestowed by the survivors upon the fallen, who themselves know nothing of heroism.

Here is he laid to whom for daring deed, nor friend nor foe could render worthy meed.

The brave men die in war. It takes great luck or judgment not to be killed. Once, at least, the head has to bow and the knee has to bend to danger. The soldiers who march back under the triumphal arches are death's deserters.

While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.

For as long as this nation has known war, we have embraced the heroes it has produced. Americans have rightfully noted the honor and nobility of courage under hostile fire and thanked those who perished in their defense.

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman.

But the worst handicap we had the prohibition of naming individual units who had done the fighting.

I don't know how prisoners of war are ever heroes unless they escape.

Soldiers will fight for our independence and the honor of the Volk. My cause is the cause of my Volk.