My grandpa was a World War II paratrooper, my uncle a Vietnam Purple Heart recipient, my cousins both Marine Corps officers. I have some very close Navy SEAL connections as well.
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Related My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. DAVE VAN RONK My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II... AL PACINO The male role models I had all seemed to have been in the military. My father served in the army. My... KEVIN POWERS World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing. DAVID AYER My grandmother is British. She was in the Women's Auxiliary Air Force during World War II. That&... SARAH GADON My dad was a golden gloves boxer in the Marine Corps, then a deputy sheriff. My mom worked as an off... SUSANA MARTINEZ The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midsh... JIM WEBB My grandfather was a lawyer, my dad was a lawyer, my mum was a lawyer, I got an uncle who's a la... BENICIO DEL TORO My mom enlisted in the U.S. Navy in World War II, and my parents actually bought our home thanks to ... THOMAS FRIEDMAN My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea. DARRELL ISSA My mother had a heart attack when she was about 50. My uncle died of a heart attack at 58. Both of m... JOY BEHAR My first direct encounter with the military was when I joined ROTC as a graduate student, although m... TAMMY DUCKWORTH Clay Hunt was the kind of individual that has made America a great country. In 2005, when his countr... JOHN DELANEY My parents met at Fort Riley, Kan., during World War II. My father was an Army civilian; he had been... MARILLYN HEWSON Both my grandparents were officers in World War Two, and I would be personally offended if somebody ... DAVID AYER I was trained to be a deadly killer. I was probably one of the Marine Corps best killers. But, I dec... ERNEST MCQUEEN My hobby was the military. I had been reading military history, especially as it relates to the Civi... MARC RAMSEY I don't know why in the world they got Vietnam and Korean war memorials up, and they didn't have any... EILEEN MEADORS What helps one Navy family helps the Navy, what helps one Marine family helps the Corps. We are all ... JANE ROSER Some of my cousins are so rich and stuck up. I fear they will one day have a heart attack when they ... MARK A. COOPER In my experience, the men of World War II, the vets of Vietnam, even guys coming back from Iraq, are... EDWARD ZWICK Quite a number of observers have commented on my coolness during various riotous concerts which I pe... GEORGE ANTHEIL In 2007, I was given the humbling privilege of being made an honorary member of the United States Ma... CHUCK NORRIS My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to figh... ZACH MCGOWAN I've read my grandmother's memoirs and she served as a nurse during World War II. What they ... JESSICA BROWN FINDLAY teacher:"I'm teacher, not because i want to teach children something. I am teacher just because I li... MY TEACHER I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving ... JIM WEBB My grandpa was in the Navy, but it wasn't something that was expected or planned for me to do. ADAM DRIVER As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recom... THOMAS S. MONSON My grandfather was in World War II and fought in Europe in Army Infantry, so I have such a huge resp... ASHTON HOLMES It's not only World War II, but we're losing Vietnam veterans, Korean. ED SANDERS I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of ... WALTER DEAN MYERS I loved being in the Marine Corps, I loved my job in the Marine Corps, and I loved the people I serv... ADAM DRIVER At that time, I knew that there were no blacks in the Marine Corps; and the only thing a black did i... JAMES WILLIAMS The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam w... RICHARD HOLBROOKE I was in World War II; I cried when they took me in the Navy. That's the last time I cried. DON RICKLES My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World ... LEONARDO DICAPRIO We think of the Marine Corps as a military outfit, and of course it is, but for me, the U.S. Marine ... J. D. VANCE By interviewing at least one veteran, you can preserve memories that otherwise might be lost. My unc... SPENCER BACHUS I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way. GEORGE MCGOVERN The Marine Corps is the Navy's police force and as long as I am President that is what it will r... HARRY S TRUMAN I did a shoot for 'Sports Illustrated,' and my grandpa called me and asked when my issue of ... JASMINE TOOKES As a child, I was raised with my grandmother, alongside all my cousins, and the kitchen was always f... AZZEDINE ALAIA World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart. JIM WEBB I have given two cousins to war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. ARTEMUS WARD Probably, had World War II not come along and intervened, I would have tried to be a doctor. My son&... JOHN GLENN I was a product of the Depression. My father struggled to make a living for our family. He worked as... CHARLES MOORE Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It's p... GEORGE KENNEDY There are few historians who would challenge the fact that the funding of World War I, World War II,... G. EDWARD GRIFFIN I grew up in Manchester, and we were very poor. My father was a miner who joined the Navy during the... BERNARD HILL World War II has continued well after it was 'finished' LEIF ERICSSON LEO VENESS It's more like a love-hate relationship. The Russian thing is more about our ancestors. Both of my g... JARKKO RUUTU My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has compleme... WILLIAM WESTMORELAND I have only one brother, but both my parents had huge families. (One of my grandmothers had) 44 gran... BONNIE BROTHERS Writing a novel about World War II and the French Resistance was a challenge both sobering and thril... BOBBIE ANN MASON I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. ARTEMUS WARD I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. ARTEMUS WARD (WRITER) I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE To us younger cousins who were born after the war, Uncle Hoyle was this mythical uncle that we all k... DALE UPCHURCH When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It w... ANG LEE I think some of my best theatre training has been in the Marine Corps. Not only meeting a bunch of c... ADAM DRIVER My definition, the definition that I've always believed in, is that esprit de corps means love f... CHESTY PULLER Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart. YOKO ONO I grew up in (trucking). My dad was a trucker and still is. My grandpa was a trucker also. MIKE BALDWIN My heart Is true as steel. -A Midsummer Night's Dream. Act ii. Sc. 1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I only hope to do well enough before I die to have a house as big as my rich Uncle Ed and Aunt Carol... PAT CONROY Of course, I also attribute some of my hearing loss to being in the infantry in World War II. It'... GEORGE KENNEDY When we left Washington and returned to Nashville in 1998, I kept my connections to international oc... WILL MARTIN He should be OK, ... He was in the Marines. My dad was in the Navy. My auntie and uncle, they were i... BYRON SANDERS The ride's boring, ... but it is fun because I don't have to go to school and I get to see my grandm... DOUG JONES World War II had a very important impact on the development of technology, as a whole. BARRY COMMONER From the time I left the Marine Corps after serving as an infantry platoon and company commander in ... JIM WEBB As I explain at some length in my book 'Energy Victory,' during World War II, the American s... ROBERT ZUBRIN As the existence of a corps of professors of mathematics is peculiar to our navy, as well as an appa... SIMON NEWCOMB My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen... WALTER DEAN MYERS All I knew is he was wanted by the Marine Corps and had been for a substantial amount of time. His r... G.R. GRAY I'm scarred for my mom. I can't really explain how I felt, but it was okay, just as long as it was s... KRISTIN BAKER My grandfather had been a newspaper reporter, as was my uncle. They were pretty good writers and so ... GENE HACKMAN When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get... MICHAEL BUBLE I have already given two cousins to the war and I stand ready to sacrifice my wife's brother. CHARLES FARRAR BROWNE I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. BENJAMIN SPOCK A well-rounded education has always been an issue close to my heart. DAVID ROBINSON My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership... FREDERICK W. SMITH I'd say my mother made more of a difference to me than anyone else did. I know that's a conv... HERB KELLEHER Well you know how some people have cancer in their family and some have heart disease. My family was... JOY BEHAR Well you know how some people have cancer in their family and some have heart disease. My family was... JOY BEHAR I grew up in a time when people believed in duty, honor and country. My grandfathers were both offic... KRIS KRISTOFFERSON I had a very strong feeling about the Vietnam War, and I had a strong feeling about participating in... HARRISON FORD (Marty) and I were really close. He wasn't just my uncle. He raised me ever since I was a baby. I wa... ALLISON SHARP My daddy was a minister, my grandfather was a voodoo priest, my uncle was a mason; I was raised with... WYCLEF JEAN My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War. JOEL KINNAMAN Johnny Mercer was my father's best friend and became mine as well. And Harold Arlen, whom I woul... MARGARET WHITING When we went into World War II, I was a tractor driver then. I drove tractors on the plantation. So ... B. B. KING Some wars," he said dismissively. "What am I at war with? My cancer. And what is my cancer? My cance... JOHN GREEN The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Becaus... DORIS LESSING I have a very close relationship with my parents. CAROLINE WOZNIACKI My uncle was a hero, Lewis Roundtree. He was not even related to me really, but he was always called... ED BRADLEY In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks. RALPH PETERS The Navy has changed a great deal. Not that the officers of my day were bad, because I served under ... ERNEST BORGNINE The first thing I learned was the 'St Louis Blues' when I was eight. Both my grandmothers, m... JOOLS HOLLAND
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