Tim Kennedy Quotes

You'd be surprised how many kids and young people come to the website and send me email that they are actually going into the Marine Corp because of something that I said or did.

One only has to look at the performance of the economy to understand how it shapes the perspective of America's youth about military service.

I was living near the Twin Towers on 9/11, so I saw the attacks, and I had friends who were killed in the attacks.

The public's evaluation of the job George W. Bush is doing as president changed dramatically as a result of the horrific attacks of September 11 and his response in leading the country on a campaign against terrorism.

After Sept. 11, New York wasn't the same, and that's part of the reason why I left.

We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.

It's sometimes hard to wrap your head around a big story, and for most of us drawing editorial cartoons 9/11/ 01, that was the biggest story of our professional lives.

I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war.

Like everyone else in the first weeks after the tragedy of 9/11, I was looking frantically for some way to help.

They're sheep. They like Bush enough to credit him with saving the nation after 9/11. Three thousand people get killed, and everybody thinks they're next on the list. The president comes along, and he's got his six-guns strapped on, and people think he's going to save them.

The attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon shook our nation to the core. Americans were deeply frightened, sad, and angry, and they rallied around a President who, at the time, showed impressive certitude and calm.

I'll play baseball for the Army or fight for it, whatever they want me to do.

In the wake of the events of 11 September 2001, it now seems clear that the shock of the attacks was exploited in America.

I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

Sept. 11 jolted America out of its second gilded age.

I want you for US Army

In America, conscription is unknown; men are enlisted for payment. Compulsory recruitment is so alien to the ideas and so foreign to the customs of the people of the United States that I doubt whether they would ever dare to introduce it into their law.

In the public's mind, Special Forces are often confused with the 'door kickers' of Special Operations Forces - such as SEAL Team 6 and Delta Force - who are the United States' elite counterterrorism operators.

I joined the army after 9/11, after the Iraq war was started. I joined in part because I wanted to go fight on the front lines.

If you ask me what I think about going to work every day, it's 9/11 and preventing another 9/11. There were too many people I knew.

I went to jail for a year when I was 17. When I got out, my mother took me to the recruiting office, and I spent the next six years in the Navy.

A few weeks after the planes hit the World Trade Center, I applied for a direct commission in the U.S. Army Reserve and ultimately served three active duty tours, including overseas in Iraq and Afghanistan. Really, my whole family served three tours.

My experience in uniform has shaped my life and informed who I am like no other, and it's difficult for me to wrap my mind around the idea that I will no longer be a soldier.

I was there on 9/11. I watched the towers falling from my office window, at which point I decided I would give up my job at a law firm in Manhattan and come back to the U.K.

I'm not some patriot. I didn't have some yearning to defend my country or anything. I was poor.