“Ever since I was a kid I've wanted this, I've wanted to serve my country, and I want to go. I want to go to Vietnam, and I'll die there if I have to.”
Tom Cruise - Ron Kovic

“I do not believe my death will help win the war. It seems that people at home no longer care anyway. I die not so much for love of country, as for love of countrymen.”

Jeffrey Jones - Fischer

“Maybe if you'd had a horse under you over there in North Africa instead of one of them there tanks, you wouldn't have got shot up the way you was and sent home.”

Robert Homans - Pop - Doorman

“It was during the Great War that we first started mining moss. It was used for putting on soldiers' wounds, because it was ten times more absorbent than cotton wool. So when they were horribly wounded, it was our moss that soaked up their blood and guts and everything.”
Robert Norman - Fraser

“Strange thing about war wound; the older you get, the less proud of them you become.”
Marcel Iures - Col. Werner Visser