Quotes October 22 & 23, 2020

“For the first time in a long time, I felt like I had a purpose being in the Navy. It wasn’t about money and rank or prestige. It was about raising the flag. We do what we do because no one else can or will do it. We fight so others can sleep at night. And I had forgotten that.”
Timothy Ciciora
 
 
 
 
“Today we say goodbye to a proud warrior. As we leave, each of us will take our members of [the USS]Midway with us… you guys were the ‘Magic.’ It was a privilege to sail with you.”
John Schork
 
 
 
 
“Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul.”
”Preparedness is the key to success and victory.”
General of the Army, Douglas MacArthur
 
 
 
 
“The soldier is the Army. No army is better than its soldiers. The Soldier is also a citizen. In fact, the highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one’s country”
George S. Patton Jr.
 
 
 
 
”Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free.”
“In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”
Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States, and former General of the Army
 
 
 
 
“The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.”
“Any soldier worth his salt should be antiwar. And still there are things worth fighting for.”
General Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army
 
 
 
 
“Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.”
Sun Tzu
 
 
 
 
“Hopefully one-day Wars will only be fought in movies. And may the best producer win!”
Stanley Victor Paskavich