"To
save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see
you now, ask why?"
W.
H. Auden, Epitaph for an unknown soldier
"The
true soldier fights
not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what
is behind him."
G.K. Chesterton,
1/14/11
"The
patriot volunteer,
fighting for country and his rights, makes the most reliable soldier on
earth."
Thomas "Stonewall"
Jackson
"Today's
American soldiers
are the veterans of the future, and they should never be sent to war
without
clear objectives that serve definite American national security
interests.
They should never fight at the behest of the United Nations or any
other
international agency. They should never serve under a UN flag, nor
answer
to a UN commander. They deserve to know that they fight for the
American
people and the Constitution, and that the decision to send them into
battle
was made by their own Congress rather than by UN bureaucrats who don't
care about them. Only by using American troops judiciously and in
service
of the Constitution can
we avoid the kind of
endless military entanglements we witnessed in Korea and Vietnam. We
honor
our veterans by ensuring that their service to the nation is never in
vain."
Rep. Ron Paul
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