men and women [who will] enlist and be deployed.” Women are particularly encouraged to join the forces

I will take my corporal oath on it.

Lead me into war...you know I believe in you.

It was such a mobilizing thing that I decided to get involved.

I chose the army because my father was an American soldier in France during World War I. I wasn't sorry to go in, I wanted to serve my country.

I signed up to protect this country. I do not choose the wars. It happens that I love to fight. But I do not choose which battles I go to. Y’all send me to them.

If it’s to be, it will be me.

I was a senior in high school. I was in class and we turned on the TV after the first plane hit. [...] That was the defining moment. Once the towers fell on 9/11, that’s when I decided I was going to join the military and I was going to serve with the 75th Ranger Regiment.

Mom, I'm going to be a firefly.

I am. I think. I will.

Become a foot soldier.

I signed up for the sake of a uniform. I was not the first, and I will not be the last.

If you have to go to jail for denouncing corruption, I'm going to go.

If I ever became president, I'd push with every ounce of power I had for Congress to pass something else into law: Every elected federal official must predesignate an individual in their immediate family who has to begin military service—the moment that official casts an affirmative vote toward going to war. This could be a grandchild, a niece or nephew, but someone. It doesn't mean they necessarily go to the war zone. What it does mean is that they and their family experience some personal discomfort because of this decision. Going to war should bring difficulty, especially to those who are the orchestrators or the authorizers. Right now, it's far too easy for them to go on TV with their bleeding hearts and give standing ovations to our service personnel. War should not be laissez-faire. If you're not willing to send someone from your family, how can you be so willing to send someone else's?