{"id":7025,"date":"2024-01-01T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-01T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/?p=7025"},"modified":"2023-12-31T11:43:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-31T16:43:19","slug":"160-quotes-and-happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/160-quotes-and-happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"#160 &#8211; Quotes&#8230; and Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"523\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AZA_BootCamp_AVJCover.jpg?resize=800%2C523&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Andy Adkins: Boot Camp, Retired\" class=\"wp-image-6007\" style=\"width:803px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AZA_BootCamp_AVJCover.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AZA_BootCamp_AVJCover.jpg?resize=300%2C196&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/azadkinsiii.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/AZA_BootCamp_AVJCover.jpg?resize=768%2C502&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Boot Camp (1973) &#8211; Recent (2021)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m &#8220;cheating&#8221; on this blog post. With the holidays, visits to family&#8230; visits from family&#8230; life got busy again. Not a bad thing for a retired guy. So, I&#8217;m reposting this message from last year. It was one of my most popular blog posts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A plethora of veteran memes and quotes float around on the Internet. I\u2019ve found some on Facebook, some on Instagram, some I\u2019ve seen in restaurants, and some hang on the walls of old-timey stores. I wanted to take a quick moment to share with you a few that I have come across over the years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t know about you, but I\u2019m ready to close out 2023 and am looking forward to 2024. I wish you and yours a very Happy New Year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">From \u201call of us\u201d at\u00a0<strong><em>A Veteran\u2019s Journey<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>G.K. Chesterton<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDuty, honor, country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Douglas MacArthur<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSome people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have ever made a difference in the world, but the Marines don\u2019t have that problem.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Ronald Reagan<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is nothing more nobler than risking your life for your country.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Nick Lampson<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThis nation will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Elmer Davis<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNever was so much owed by so many to so few.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Winston Churchill<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe don\u2019t know them all, but we owe them all.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Unknown<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Joseph Campbell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cFreedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Eleanor Roosevelt<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur debt to the heroic men and valiant women in the service of our country can never be repaid. They have earned our undying gratitude. America will never forget their sacrifices.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Harry S. Truman<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who die. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>George S. Patton, Jr.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe 80th Infantry Division Only Moves Forward.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>General Aldebert Cronkhite<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy heroes are those who risk their lives every day to protect our world and make it a better place\u2014police, firefighters, and members of our armed forces.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Sidney Sheldon<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWomen who stepped up were measured as citizens of the nation, not as women\u2026 this was a people\u2019s war, and everyone was in it.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Col Oveta C. Hobby<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe willingness of America\u2019s veterans to sacrifice for our country has earned them our lasting gratitude.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Jeff Miller<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHonor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country\u2019s cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Abraham Lincoln<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Barack Obama<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCourage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear\u2014not absence of fear.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Mark Twain<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>John F. Kennedy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cA hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Joseph Campbell<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Cynthia Ozick<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cTo those in uniform serving today and to those who have served in the past, we honor you today and every day.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Unknown<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAsk not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>John F. Kennedy<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere is certain enthusiasm in liberty, that makes human nature rise above itself, in acts of bravery and heroism.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Alexander Hamilton<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAmerican without her soldiers would be like God without His angels.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Claudia Pemberton<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe soldier above all others prays for peace, for it is the soldier who must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>General Douglas MacArthur<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared to death.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>General Omar Bradley<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cValor is stability, not of legs and arms, but of courage and the soul.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Michel de Montaigne<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt takes a hero to be one of those men who goes into battle.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>General Norman Schwarzkopf<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI am not a hero, but the brave men who died deserved this honor.\u201d \u2013<em>&nbsp;Ira Hayes<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m proud to be an American, where at least I know I\u2019m free. And I won\u2019t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Lee Greenwood<\/em>&nbsp;(\u201cGod Bless the U.S.A.\u201d)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIn war, there are no unwounded soldiers.\u201d \u2013&nbsp;<em>Jos<\/em><em>\u00e9 Narosky<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-cyan-bluish-gray-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-df94869fd10fc52b492f162d4636f917 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#000030\"><strong>Andy Adkins<\/strong>\u00a0is a US Navy veteran (\u201973-77) and the author of several books, including\u00a0<strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.azadkinsiii.com\/book_closer.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">You Can\u2019t Get Much Closer Than This-Combat with the 80th \u201cBlue Ridge\u201d Division in World War II Europe<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, published by Casemate Publishers (2005) and selected as the Book of the Month for the Military Book Club. 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