Quote of the Day for 2016-05-11

"We are dealing with [veterans], not procedures; with their problems, not ours."

— Omar Bradley (1893-1981) "General Bradley Speaks of Personnel Affairs," Veterans Administration Personnel Bulletin IB-5, Volume 11 (May 31, 1947)

Original caption: "At the Bronx VA Hospital veteran Frank Stoppiello, wounded in the Ashau Valley in Vietnam, gives a cigarette to quadriplegic Andrew Kmetz, an Army veteran, as they wait for treatment. Because of overcrowding, they must share a corner with trash cans." (May 22, 1970) Photo by Co Rentmeester for Life magazine

Quote of the Day for 2015-12-12

"There is always inequality in life. Some men are killed in a war and some are wounded and some men never leave the country. … Life is unfair."

— John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) Press Conference, March 21, 1962

Secretary of War Newton D. Baker (blindfolded) draws the first number in a nationwide lottery to determine the order of drafting men for the military. (June 27, 1918)

Quote of the Day for 2015-09-15

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children."

— Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969) The "Chance for Peace" address to the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953

"Camels search for untainted shrubs and water in the burning oil fields of" Al Ahmadi, Kuwait after the Gulf War. Photograph taken by Steve McCurry and published in National Geographic, August 1991.