By my count, of the more than 600 English-language World War II movies made since 1940, only four have even acknowledged the humanity of the soldiers of Nippon. There may be a few I've missed, but not many.
[the redux version] Willard: Who's in charge here? Soldier: In charge? I don't know, man. I'm just doing what I'm told - I'm just a working girl.
Mike Shiner: A man becomes a critic when he cannot be an artist, the same way that a man becomes an informer when he cannot be a soldier.
Brendan Frye: Your muscle seemed plenty cool putting his fist in my head. I want him out. The Pin: Looky, soldier... Brendan Frye: The ape blows or I clam.
If you hear, day after day, liberals are rooting against armed forces, that is eventually going to have an effect on soldiers and troops who are actually going to believe that and it's wrong. It's just wrong.
For security you need more soldiers, you need more policemen, you need more vehicles, you need more planes, you need more guns, you need more communications.
Since the enactment of the War Powers Act in 1973, which I supported then and support now, Congress has been reluctant to assert its authority when presidents decide to send American soldiers into harm's way.
First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot.
The war was declared over - the end of major combat operations - in May 2003. Release procedures got under way immediately; reducing the population from 8,000 to just over 300, of course, requires fewer military police soldiers.
The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was, when actually people start shooting, which happened to me a couple of times, everything goes on automatic and there's a feeling of treme...
All you have to do is hold your first soldier who is dying in your arms, and have that terribly futile feeling that I can't do anything about it... Then you understand the horror of war.
Hang a German, even if he is a good man.
The open house makes a good man of the thief.
Willing is a good man, but Able is a better one.
There's many a good man to be found under a shabby hat.
A bad man in Zion City is a good man in Chicago.
A good man is one who rejoices in the well-being of others.
Good looking and good luck don't always walk the same road.
Better one good thing that is than two good things that were.
You can have too much of a good thing.
Cheap things are not good, good things are not cheap.
