“I was the first, and to date, the only woman veteran ever elected, and there is a surprisingly low percentage of veterans in Parliament.”

2016, Disabled American Veterans Convention (August 2016)

2016, Disabled American Veterans Convention (August 2016)
Context: Our commitment to our veterans is a sacred covenant.... It is sacred because there's no more solemn request than to ask someone to risk their life, to be ready to give their life on our behalf. It's a covenant because both sides have responsibilities. Those who put on the uniform, you took an oath to protect and defend us. While the rest of us, the citizens you kept safe, we pledged to take care of you and your families when you come home. That's a sacred covenant. That's a solemn promise that we make to each other. And it is binding. And upholding it is a moral imperative.... If there’s ever a breach in the covenant, then leaders in this country have to work hard to regain trust.... And when we take care of each other and uphold that sacred covenant, there is nothing we cannot do.

While Administrator of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs <br class="br"> &quot;General Bradley Speaks of Personnel Affairs,&quot; http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112055973280;view=1up;seq=232 Veterans Administration Personnel Bulletin IB-5, Volume 11 http://books.google.com/books?id=Hu5U5jSnPhIC&amp;q=%22We+are+dealing+with+men+not+procedures+with+their+problems+not+ours%22&amp;pg=PT11-PA14#v=onepage (31 May 1947)

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)
Context: It is not that addresses at the opening of a battle make the soldiers brave. The old veterans scarcely hear them, and recruits forget them at the first boom of the cannon. Their usefulness lies in their effect on the course of the campaign, in neutralizing rumors and false reports, in maintaining a good spirit in the camp, and in furnishing matter for camp-fire talk. The printed order of the day should fulfill these different ends.

No. 5
1770s, Novanglus essays (1774&ndash;1775)
Context: We are told: "It is a universal truth, that he that would excite a rebellion, is at heart as great a tyrant as ever wielded the iron rod of oppression." Be it so. We are not exciting a rebellion. Opposition, nay, open, avowed resistance by arms, against usurpation and lawless violence, is not rebellion by the law of God or the land. Resistance to lawful authority makes rebellion. … Remember the frank Veteran acknowledges, that "the word rebel is a convertible term."

Earl Blumenauer (December 18, 2007), &quot; House Restores Oregon Veterans Provisions Cut by Senate http://blumenauer.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=323&quot;. Press Release. Congressman Earl Blumenauer&#x27;s Website, Representing the 3rd Congressional District of Oregon. United States House of Representatives.

Source: Kill the Dead

Source: The Boy Crisis (2018), pp. 290