ok so the past week i have been doing some thinking and i have finally made up my mind! after my tour in Iraq is over I'm going into the regular army and getting stationed some where over seas and living my dream and doing what i love!see you later family that i love and friends that i have made along the way=( i will miss you dearly but i need to do this for my self while I'm young and healthy enough to be a Ranger and SF for the military! =)our memories i will take with me but this is a journey that i will take on myself=) when and if i get back we can pick up our friendship where we left off=)
Myspace Layouts"In war, there is no substitute for victory."
-General Douglas MacArthur-
Myspace Layouts"I have never taken any command into battle with the slightest desire to come out of it alive unless i won."
-General P.H. Sheridan-
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Myspace Layouts"War is an ugly thing but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of mind that thinks nothing is worth fighting for is far worse."
-John Stuart Mill-
Myspace Layouts'Battle is the ultimate to which the whole life's labor of a [soldier] should be directed. He may live to the age of retirement without seeing a battle; still, he must always be getting ready for it exactly as if he knew the hour of the day it is to break upon him. And then, whether it comes early or late, he must be willing to fight- he must fight."
-BG Charles F. Smith-
Myspace Layouts"Let every nation know, whether it wishes well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, to assure the survival and success of liberty."
-President John F. Kennedy-
Myspace Layouts"I regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."
-Nathan Hale-
Myspace Layouts"To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving the peace."
-President George Washington-
Myspace Layouts"It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory."
-General George C. Marshall-
Myspace Layouts"When duty whispers-'low, thou must'- you must reply: 'I can!"
-Ralph Waldo Emerson-
Myspace Layouts"You cannot be disciplined in the great things and undisciplined in the small things. There is only one sort of discipline- perfect discipline."
-General George S. Patten, Jr.-
Myspace Layouts"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
-Eleanor Roosevelt-
Myspace Layouts"Encourage us in our endeavor to live above the common level of life. Help us to choose the harder right instead of the easier wrong."
-West Point Cadet Prayer-
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