"My dad being an Army officer, I was……" — John Eisenhower
"My dad being an Army officer, I was just born to it. I was raised in a military manner, and it was a given that Army brats went to West Point, so I went to West Point in 1941. And being in the military has been my life."
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John Eisenhower
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10 Quotes by John Eisenhower
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As son of a Republican president, Dwight D. Eisenhower, it is automatically expected by many that I am a Republican.…
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I do not believe that the children of presidents or vice-presidents should be assigned to combat zones. They have no…
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Avoiding combat duty was and is an unforgivable sin for a professional soldier.
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In the summer of 1952, when I was 30, the Army assigned me to an infantry unit fighting in Korea.…
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The British soldiers serving in Afghanistan alongside Prince Harry were in exceptional danger until he was withdrawn.
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Unlike the Afghans and Iraqis, the South Korean people solidly supported the American military presence, which was part of a…
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I was a lieutenant in World War II.
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You know, my dad was a lieutenant colonel at Ft. Lewis on the 3rd of March, 1941. Fifteen months later,…
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When France fell in 1940, De Gaulle was a temporary brigadier general.
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