a spartan king once said

"the nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its warriors will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done by fools."

veteran

whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'
That is Honor, and there are way too many people in this country who no longer understand it.

- Author Unknown