Veteran Status Quotes

I have the complete support of the military. I personally served in the navy.

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a period technically dubbed 'peacetime,' they restored American pride in the wake of Vietnam and helped bring a successful end to the Cold War. The service of these men and women was not without cost. There are countless stories of soldiers who served with great distinction only to be denied veteran status after returning home. Every man and woman who volunteered to serve this country should be treated with the same degree of respect, gratitude and dignity.

When I left the army, I left for good.

Am I still in uniform? Then I ain't retired.

I have never once claimed that I have a Combat Action Badge. I have never claimed that I have a Purple Heart. What I have claimed is that I have served in a combat zone.

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

I'm considered the 'old daddy of adventure.'

It's not like I'm some kind of veteran and there is this huge age gap. I identify with them more off the field. I need to set an example, which is great, and I look forward to doing just that.

After 21 years, six months and 10 days of active military service, I am now a civilian.

A few years back I was asked if I would go and meet a director and his various acolytes, and it occurred to me halfway through the meeting that what I was doing was auditioning. And I thought, 'Well, hang on buddy. I've done half a century of this.'

I am in the infantry for 17 weeks and after that I don't know where I am going.

Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.

I am very proud of my service, and by law, I am defined as a combat veteran.

My father is a retired army captain and banking software salesman, and my mother is an English teacher.

Long before I achieved financial success and became the subject of a Hollywood film, I was a veteran, a single father, and a working person who was homeless.

Being a retired major looks like an ideal thing to me. What a pity you couldn't eternally have been just a retired major.

I am a veteran, I fought in a war. I've been a prosecutor. I've sent people to jail for the rest of their life.

I am more into the old school guy than I am with the new school guys. I came in young and I had to pay my dues to be considered a vet. To be able to play for over 10 years at wide receiver, that's why I like looking at the older guys like Larry Fitzgerald, Teddy Ginn Jr., Brian Hartline. That's what I'm about.

Because of the changes in the Padres team I played with last year, I felt like a veteran recently when I worked out with Jason Kendall and he told me he's liked listening to my records since he was a kid!

I have an honorable discharge from the United States Navy. Hillary Clinton don't have one. Bill Clinton don't have one. Trump don't have one. Obama don't have one.

I was in the Navy as an enlisted man, started my first business when I was 21.

I myself am a former commando fighter.

Benedict Arnold was a war hero, wounded in battle--before he turned against his country. Hitler was likewise a decorated and wounded veteran of the First World War. Being a war hero is not a lifetime...exempt[ion]...from responsibility for what you do thereafter.

When people know you've been a soldier, they judge you: you are a thief, a lost boy.