The war we have now is not the war we started off with. It's much more serious.

Decisions made years earlier made going to war in any significant way impossible without Guard and Reserve participation. But I can't imagine anyone postulated the situation we face today: We don't seem very anxious to bring back the draft and we can't get enough volunteers for a war that is not universally popular,

Army recruiting is in a death spiral, through no fault of the Army,

Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace.

Dad's final and maybe his greatest public service was the great highway war.

They reflect the times. This is 1941. Europe is sliding very quickly into war, France is about to be occupied by Germany, and it was a time of enormous anxiety, tension, fear.