Military Quotes
Combat Infantry Badge
Infantry Combat
The following quote was written for the 50th anniversary reunion of the 44th Division in 1994.
“The combat infantryman was something special. He belonged to the closest fraternity in the world. Perfect strangers who came together and became brothers. They were the “gallant ones” and to belong you had to taste fear, misery, hurt, the sting of shrapnel and the bite of a bullet. You had to see your buddy fall or die in your arms. The good times and the sad ones.
No one in this cockeyed world can touch in honor, duty and love for another, the guy who wears the “Combat Infantry Badge”.
”Major Walt Motyka
44th Infantry Division
Co. “A” 114th Inf. Regiment
The Rifleman
“The rifleman fights without promise of either reward or relief. Behind every river there’s another hill — and behind that hill, another river.
After weeks or months in the line, only a wound can offer him the comfort of safety, shelter, and a bed.
Those who are left to fight, fight on, evading death but knowing that with each day of evasion, they have exhausted one more chance for survival.
Sooner or later, unless victory comes, this chase must end on the litter or in the grave.
”General Omar Bradley
Soldier
“I was that which others did not want to be.
I went where others feared to go, and did what others failed to do.
I asked nothing from those who gave nothing, and reluctantly accepted the thought of eternal loneliness…should I fail.
I have seen the face of terror; felt the stinging cold of fear; and enjoyed the sweet taste of a moment’s love.
I have cried, pained, and hoped… but most of all, I have lived times others would say were best forgotten.
At least someday I will be able to say that I was proud of what I was… a solder.
”George L. Skypeck