Quotes of: Korean-war Keyword

We all struggle alone through the ten thousand joys and ten thousand sorrows of our lives.

Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

Sometimes the best virtue learned on the battlefield is modesty.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

Peterson thought it an unusual friendship, one only the Army could forge.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

It is no accident, then, that each of our major wars has served to enhance the power of government in Washington: the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The Struggle for Democracy

I want true love in this life, and true contentment and peace. But maybe the only way I can find those things is to let go of the belief that this life is my reality.

Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

This was the mark of an uncommon soldier, someone whose courage away from the battlefield was the same as that on it.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

The need for a non-veteran reserve became painfully obvious in the Korean war when many of the men who were being called to serve were World War II veterans participating in Ready Reserve units.

J. Anthony Lukas

I was drafted during the Korean War. None of us wanted to go... It was only a couple of years after World War II had ended. We said, 'Wait a second? Didn't we just get through with that?'

Clint Eastwood

What looked safe was not safe. What looked hard and unsafe was probably safer. Anyway, safe was somewhere else in the world.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

I loved reading the Dalai Lama's words: "My religion is loving-kindness." I realized that meant loving-kindness to everyone in my life: past, present, and future; and that meant loving-kindness to myself--in my pain, in my jealousy, in my fear.

Ten Thousand Sorrows : The Extraordinary Journey of a Korean War Orphan

If he (George Keenan)felt on occasion more than a little uncomfortable when being listened to, then he was truly unhappy when not being listened to.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

The truth posed a great dilemma for a man who always had to be right, and yet, for all his grandeur, was often wrong.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

Most commanders wanted as many good sources of information as possible. MacArthur was focused on limiting and controlling his sources of intelligence.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

Charles B. Rangel

We had it drilled into us time and time again: 'If someone above you falls, grip tightly to the vertical rope and cradle that person in your arms until help can get to you.'...If someone fell down on me I swear I would have bitten him on the ass and ...

The Four Deuces: A Korean War Story

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.

William Kirby

The author describes megalomania as seen in Chairman Mao by saying that what he was familiar with, he was really familiar with. This zeal moved the megalomaniac with a complete lack of appreciation for what he DID NOT know.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

Fear was the terrible secret of the battlefiled and could afflict the brave as well as the timid. Worse it was contagious, and could destroy a unit before a battle even began. Because of that, commanders were first and foremost in the fear suppressio...

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War

Past records of inter-Korean relations show that confrontation between fellow countrymen leads to nothing but war.

Kim Jong-un

When the Korean economy was just trying to get back on its feet after the war, having parks was a luxury.

Lee Myung-bak

Because history became his (Keenan's) genuine passion, he tended to see the world in terms of deep historical forces that, in his mind, formed a nation's character in ways almost beyond the consciousness of the men who momentarily governed it, as if ...

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War