Zach Wamp Quotes

The U.S. Military is us. There is no truer representation of a country than the people that it sends into the field to fight for it. The people who wear our uniform and carry our rifles into combat are our kids, and our job is to support them, because they're protecting us.

I am willing to serve my country, but do not wish to sacrifice the brave men under my command.

Like the American soldiers who went before them, they are putting their lives on the line to protect ours.

More than 48 million men and women have served America well and faithfully in military uniform.

Today, our brave military men and women, just as those who have gone before them, stand on alert, securing freedom at home and guarding the innocent abroad.

One percent of our country is fighting to protect the other 99 percent.

When I was growing up, officers in uniform were very impressive to me. They were doing a job. They were protecting our country; they were heroes. When you wear an old military jacket, there's some sort of connection to those qualities - to being strong, to being tough, to being a warrior.

SEALs aren't the only heroes out there. Everyone who puts on a uniform meets that threshold.

Every member of the U.S. Armed Forces knows what they signed up for, and they know what their job is, and they are proud of their job.

We Marines believe that God gave America the greatest gift He could bestow to man while he lived on this earth -freedom. We also believe He gave us another gift nearly as precious - our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, and Marines - to safeguard that gift and guarantee no force on this earth can ever steal it away.

Veterans have stood up for us.

Sacrifice is the 1.3 million active duty men and women in the U.S. military and 800,000 reserve forces who volunteer to keep us safe and defend our way of life.

We ask our brave men and women in uniform to risk everything to protect us.

'Home' is an important word for our soldiers, sailors, airmen and women. They regularly put their lives at risk in order to make us feel safe in our own homes while fighting to provide overseas communities with that same security.

I have respect for anybody that has to go and do whatever they have to do to protect their country.

History has taught us over and over again that freedom is not free. When push comes to shove, the ultimate protectors of freedom and liberty are the brave men and women in our armed forces. Throughout our history, they've answered the call in bravery and sacrifice.

Being a soldier, fighting for this country, is neither Republican nor Democrat.

I understand the sacrifices American servicemen and women have made to protect freedom and democracy in my country and around the world.

If I have got to be a soldier, I must be a good one, anything else is unthinkable.

When you think about those of us that live the life that we want to live, we can thank absolutely and completely our men and women in uniform. Because if it were not for them, we wouldn't enjoy the freedoms that we have.

From the bitter cold winter at Valley Forge, to the mountains of Afghanistan and the deserts of Iraq, our soldiers have courageously answered when called, gone where ordered, and defended our nation with honor.

Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict.

I long to be in the Field again, doing my part to keep the old flag up, with all its stars.

The men and women who serve in our military have won for us every hour we live in freedom, sometimes at the expense of the very hours of the lifetimes they had hoped to live.

Freedom is a right ultimately defended by the sacrifice of America's servicemen and women.