Retired 25 year USAF SMSgt. Originally from NY.

"We should not ask God why such good men die. Rather, we should thank God that such men lived."

- George S. Patton

"War is a terrible thing, but not the most terrible of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature, and has no chance of being free unless made or kept so by the exertions of better men than himself."

- John Stuart Mill