on the front of the white marble tomb was the inscription…

Here rests in honored glory an American soldier known but to God

— Friedrich Von Schiller

“Like Michelangelo spending eight months in the mountains of Carrara, selecting the most perfect blocks of marble for the tomb of Pope Julius II,…

— Marcel Proust

Mike Hall was my old friend and, more important, the finest soldier I'd ever known. After over 30 years of service and then 18…

— Stanley A. McChrystal

Sacrificing American soldiers or innocent civilians in an unprecedented preemptive attack on a separate sovereign nation may well prove itself a most temporary medicine.

— Sean Penn

When this war is over, the Japanese language will be spoken only in hell!

— William Halsey

I have found over the years that American soldiers and airmen thrive on competition.

— William H. Tunner

I'm shooting a gangbanger, but as a dignified man. That's pretty much what war photography did: seeing images of soldiers in a dignified way.…

— Jamel Shabazz

Because Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama failed to provide a status of forces agreement and leave sufficient troops in there, we are back at…

— Mike Pence

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

— Zell Miller

There's something about an American soldier you can't explain. They're so grateful for anything, even a film actress coming to see them.

— Marlene Dietrich

“Looking up, Missouri saw a formation of low-flying P-47's on the horizon, heading up the coast from Naples...Sergeant Missouri laughed aloud. "They're sending us…

— Maureen Daly

If today is anything like the typical day of the past 3 years, three American soldiers will die in Iraq or Afghanistan, the Taliban…

— Alcee Hastings

“Ask an American soldier to identify himself, and he probably will say he is “in the Army.” By contrast, a Marine— especially if he…

— Thomas E. Ricks

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield,…

— John Yoo

Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes!

— William H. Prescott