Oliver North Quotes About War

• The lesson of Pearl Harbor ought never to be forgotten, and of course the motto that came from that, 69 years ago, the war which my dad fought, was 'Remember Pearl Harbor, never again.' We need to keep that to mind.

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• And of course there is so much of World War II that is documented that we never have seen

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  "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". CFIF Interview, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

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• The 2.4 million bright, brave, incredibly fit and remarkably talented young Americans who have served in our armed forces since we were attacked on 9-11-01 are all volunteers. As General Petraeus put it during a conversation we had in Afghanistan, 'They all came or stayed, knowing they were going to war.' For more than a decade, these patriots and their loved ones have made extraordinary sacrifices for this country. They embody the classical definition of heroes: those who put themselves at risk for the benefit of others.

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  "The Heroes of 2011" by Oliver North, www.foxnews.com. November 11, 2011.

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• All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

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• And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.

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  "Oliver North Discusses His Book, ‘War Stories II: Heroism in the Pacific’". "Your Turn — Meeting Nonsense with Common Sense" with Renee Giachino, www.cfif.org. March 9, 2005.

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• History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.

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  "Common Sense:The U.N. Fails Freedom — Again" by Oliver North, www.foxnews.com. August 10, 2006.

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