Daniel J. Evans 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.

I hated the draft, but at the same time, it's something that made every American take war seriously.

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.

And then I went to the University of New Hampshire for two years, and then the war came along.

I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

When I became a soldier, I was drafted in 1937, and instead of being released two years later, I had to stay on because the war had started in the meantime. I was a soldier for more than eight years, as long a time as I was Chancellor.

I went to Manchester poly for two years.

In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.

Registration is a World War II response, and we need a 1980 solution.

I moved to Chicago in 1980 to go to college.

Men o' war were to be a part of the fabric of my life for the next half-century.

I graduated from the University of Whatever.

I went to college at QUT: Queensland University of Technology. I studied for a Bachelors in finance and acting.

It's one thing to say you're for the war; it's another thing to send your kid to war - your daughter or your son.

I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared.

The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school.

I went to Syracuse University.

And religion causes most of the problems, war, and economics of course, and study your history or you're going to repeat it; and if you're burning a Harry Potter book you need some serious counseling, you don't get it, you're missing the whole point.

My graduate study was interrupted, like that of many others, by World War II.

You could tell that America was gearing up for war.

I hope my own children never have to fight a war.

The accounting of the sacrifice is, more than anything else, the attitude toward war memorials in our time.

Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really stupid, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static.'

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