Quotes of: Okinawa Keyword

I intend to travel to Okinawa and to visit with Okinawa officials and the citizens of Okinawa at an early date. I will send my best analysis of that situation, including the local attitudes, back to Washington, to the government there.

Howard Baker

O-Ren Ishii: Your instrument is quite impressive. Where was it made? The Bride: Okinawa. O-Ren Ishii: [in Japanese] Whom in Okinawa made you this steel? The Bride: [in Japanese] Hattori Hanzo. O-Ren Ishii: [in Japanese] YOU LIE! [the Bride shows Hatt...

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

Mel Tillis

Your soul may belong to Jesus, but your ass belongs to the marines.

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

The desire to see Okinawa returned to Japan developed into a broad national consensus among our people.

Eisaku Sato

Hattori Hanzo: What brings you to Okinawa? The Bride: I'm here to see a man. Hattori Hanzo: Oh yeah? You have a friend living in Okinawa? The Bride: Not quite. Hattori Hanzo: Not a friend? The Bride: I've never met him. Hattori Hanzo: Never? Who is h...

Kill Bill: Vol. 1

The other veteran said "Listen, mate, everybody gets scared, and anybody says he don't is a damn liar

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Would the war dehumanize me so that I, too, could "field trip" enemy dead with such nonchalance?

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

A lifetime of low calories has come naturally to the longest-lived people in the world... in the Japanese archipelago of Okinawa.

S. Jay Olshansky

The ongoing dispute over the relocation of U.S. Marines on Okinawa should be quickly settled. This isn't just an issue for the U.S. and Japan. It has regional implications.

Ed Royce

Eat your vegetables, have a positive outlook, be kind to people, and smile - Kamada Nakasato, 102-y/o-female fr. Okinawa

Dan Buettner

Japan's alliance with the U.S. will only grow in importance amid the increasingly difficult security situation surrounding our country, thus I think it is necessary to keep the marines in Okinawa, a geographically strategic location from the standpoi...

Yoshihiko Noda

I asked God "Why, why, why?" I turned my face away and wished that I were imagining it all. I had tasted the bitterest essence of war, the sight of helpless comrades being slaughtered, and it filled me with disgust.

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

Cope? Adapt? Uh, no. These are military kids. They roll with it. I once asked a new student, 'See any familiar faces?' She pointed out various kids and replied, 'Seattle, Tampa, Okinawa, New Jersey.' For military dependents school is literally a non-...

The Rainy Season

It's hard for me to think about this, but I first went to Southeast Asia as a Marine more than 40 years ago, as a young Marine. I was on Okinawa and then in Vietnam. I've returned in many different hats, which I think has helped me to form my own vie...

Jim Webb

As the sun disappeared below the horizon and its glare no longer reflected off a glassy sea, I thought of how beautiful the sunsets always were in the Pacific. They were even more beautiful than over Mobile Bay. Suddenly a thought hit me like a thund...

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

To the non-combatants and those on the periphery of action, the war meant only boredom or occasional excitement, but to those who entered the meat grinder itself the war was a netherworld of horror from which escape seemed less and less likely as cas...

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa

The Japanese fought to win - it was a savage, brutal, inhumane, exhausting and dirty business. Our commanders knew that if we were to win and survive, we must be trained realistically for it whether we liked it or not. In the post-war years, the U.S....

With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa