Jim Webb Quotes

Military children don't make foreign policy but they live it.

The constant movement of a military life can be tough on children. My father was an officer in the army, and I was forced to change elementary schools six times.

Anybody who was in the military or a military family has a certain sensitivity to the separation. Everyone knows military wives have the hardest jobs. I was born into one. When I think back to those days, I didn't appreciate it then.

My dad was in the military. It was difficult sometimes, because he would have to be away a lot, and we would have to move around a lot. Trying to adapt to new schools and new places can be really tough.

When I was growing up, my family was plagued by poverty. My mother, a single parent, worked around the clock to make sure her children - me, my five brothers, and three sisters - could eat and have a safe place to sleep. We hardly saw her.

As someone who grew up in a military family, I know what it's like to have those you care about serve overseas.

This is the hardest part of military family life - being away from each other.

When I married into the military a few years ago, I was failing at navigating the realities of deployment alone. When I turned to the military family community, their tried and true coping skills changed my life.

I never played sports or got into the whole guy camaraderie of, like, 'I love you, man! Seniors forever!' So suddenly being in the military with these guys who were under these very heightened circumstances, isolated from their families, living this very kind of Greek lifestyle, it changed my life in a really big way.

The thing about the Air Force or any branch of the military is that all of us were plucked away from our homes and our comfort zones and our families. So there was a solidarity in the military, a brotherhood.

A military childhood in the 1950s was very much informed by WWII. My brothers and I often heard stories from our dad - and from other kids - about things that had happened to their dads. We constantly played war games and, nearly every Saturday, saw a different WWII movie at the post theater.

I grew up in a very open-minded family. My father died when I was very little, so my mother was really, really incredibly busy trying to provide for us.

When you're in a single-parent home, they try to give you a good foundation, but by the time you're 4 or 5 years old, from that point on you're pretty much on your own.

I'm one of three boys raised by a single mom in a military beach town in the South.

I know what soldiers or their families go through.

My dad has been in the military for 35 years. My brother's in the Air Force. I'm familiar with what it's like being in a military family - the unusual traumas you carry around with you.

My mom was my mother and father. My father lost his mind when I was about 4 years old. And my mom did everything she could to make sure that we was brought up right.

As the proud home of Fort Drum and the Navy Nuclear Site at Kesselring, our district is home to countless military spouses who make enormous sacrifices on behalf of our nation.

I grew up in a military family, and my dad was gone for long periods of time. Families make it work because you know you care for each other.

My father, he left the family when I was 13, so mum looked after us.

I grew up in a military family. My father spent 26 years in the Air Force.

Military spouse employment is the issue that most people email me about when they are suggesting topics for me to cover in my Home Front' column.

My father was in the military, so I was in Okinawa.

My dad was a 30-year career Marine. He was stationed in Quantico Va., and another military base.

I was a military brat; we moved all around.