Day Quote by Tammy Duckworth

I've been out to Walter Reed on unannounced visits. I've seen these soldiers. I've met their families.

— Dick Durbin

It's not just: you get off the plane, you're back home, everything's fine. Maybe the physical danger ends, but soldiers are still deeply at…

— Kevin Powers

I went to Walter Reed hospital a couple of times to visit wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to…

— Jeff Daniels

“Earlier in the day, Coast Guard helicopters had arrived and volunteered to spend an hour transporting healthy people to safety (they didn’t have enough…

— Linda Marsa

I was injured by an enemy hand grenade in Afghanistan in 2010. I spent three years recovering at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center...…

— Kyle Carpenter

I am delighted to round off my military life safely, thanks to those who have taken good care of me like my family.

— Joo Won

As someone who's spent time with our troops in Iraq and Afghanistan on USO tours and met wounded warriors at Walter Reed and Bethesda,…

— Al Franken

If the security personnel do their job properly, they just might cause you to miss your plane, thereby possibly saving your life.

— Dave Barry

Everyone knows what can happen to soldiers who are in front line units.

— Richard Engel

And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I…

— Janis Karpinski

I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and…

— Adam Driver

Our brave service men and women put their lives on the line to protect our country and our freedom. Sadly, they often return home…

— Michael Waltz