Dave Quote by Sherman Alexie

A soldier's longing to talk about his experiences of battle is a wound that never heals.

— Ralph Peters

“Here I am, saving your lives, bitten and scarred and wounded for you, and you don't even know it.”

— Jackson Pearce

I think each veteran's soul has something that it needs to say. I know from my own personal traumas, it's very hard to know…

— Mary Gauthier

One must not speak of such things. One is still scarred from that experience.

— Cecelia Ahern

I'm very pleased with how far I've come, and I see my injuries and my scars and all my buddies and everybody that was…

— Kyle Carpenter

I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person.

— Walt Whitman

“We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.”

— Leslie Jamison

“War veterans of a lost war and those who have loved and lost have something in common: both are heart-broken. But the physical wounds…

— Bakht Ashraf

I think we're all wounded, but some of us, when we experience the healing of those wounds, that they scar and scab over.

— LeCrae

“Your scars are battle wounds, but you don’t see them that way.”

— Tammara Webber

Many of our veterans face an invisible, life-long struggle to come to terms with horrifying experiences they endured while protecting the rest of us.

— Nancy Mace

“You're too nice when you're wounded. It's unsettling.”

— Sarah J. Maas