Barriers Quote by George W. Bush

When our veterans walk into any VA facility, they converse with men and women who speak the unique language of military service.

— Robert Wilkie

Vets are different than other people. Frontline or support, they carry themselves differently than the rest of us. It is as if they entered…

— Rick Tumlinson

When vets come home from war they are going through a tremendous change in identity. Then the VA, and others, encourage them to view…

— Eric Greitens

“A language is a dialect that has an army and a navy.”

— Max Weinreich

As long as a language lives, the war will not perish.

— Vikrant Parsai

With veterans, we want them to be able to talk about their struggles and sometimes they can't. Sometimes they're dealing with trauma that damages…

— Karen Pence

We have to change that whole system [of veterans support]. It starts with management. We have to have a whole different set of protocols.…

— Donald Trump

More has been screwed up on the battlefield and misunderstood in the Pentagon because of a lack of understanding of the English language than…

— John W. Vessey, Jr

Our military is going to remain a diverse military.

— Lloyd Austin

Muddy language is not confined to policies alone. Each of you has seen replies to simple questions in which the meaning was lost through…

— Omar N. Bradley

I think matching up Vietnam vets with these Iraqi vets would be a really great thing. When soldiers say only other soldiers can understand,…

— Nina Berman

The veterans of our military services have put their lives on the line to protect the freedoms that we enjoy. They have dedicated their…

— Judd Gregg