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Pension Shortfall - 'Are we going to have to re-enlist?'

"It's going over the top? D' you realise what you've just said?"

"I had a great weekend... My Grandpa talked about the war again and my Dad about his most daring facebook comments!"

'Who said the Germans don't have a sense of humour? Just look at that card Hans Greber and we have haven't been shot at all day.'

"That's for staying married for thirty-five years to a difficult woman."

"Did you call for a Medic?"

Harry Chauvel & T. E. Lawrence

"So, Gilbert was your friend who fought in Vietnam?"

'Oh, just my old war injury acting up.'

"By George, that should do it - as long as we don[t bomb our own men again "

European Arms Proliferation - 1860's

'It's been five years since leaving Iraq and I'm still getting the sand out my ears.'

"Henry took a shower yesterday right next to Winthrop Rockefeller."

Left Behind

"Most of the time, war...it makes no sense. A lot of times, we'd hear artillery whistling over our heads. But really, you can't move. You just wait...and wait...until it hits...and hope it isn't hitting you."

"… and once you've finished advanced infantry training, you'll be assigned to film school."

'They want the medals back. Apparently, you used a Vicks inhaler before going over the top in 1916.'

"We will remember them."

The origin of 'Rorke's drift' has long been a subject of intense speculation.

What was dating like in your day, Mort? Very, very confusing. Women only talked about things they thought I was interested in. They never showed affection publicly because they thought it would embarrass me. For some reason, they made a point of never telling me any stories in which they had fun with other people. I always knew less about a lady at the end of a date than I did at the beginning. I don't get it. The you'd have fit right in.

"You know, Daddy... We should thank a vet every day."

Nancy Wake -French resistance fighter WW11

And I got an honorary Purple Heart for sticking myself with one of my flag pins.

"The Balkans. This is where I came in."

"Back in my day, 'Call of Duty' wasn't a game."

Victorian bachelors leering over woman.

Plastidad

US soldiers deaths in Iraq.

'You know I felt pretty confident until I saw that sign... I mean, didn't we really get whupped in that fight?'

"This is your great-uncle Rudy. In World War II, he fought with the Army, the Navy and the Marines."

A cavalier gentleman.

'Honey, this is my Uncle Duggie . . . he lost most of his DNA during the war.'

'At least never knowing who's a friendly should prepare me for a career in business.'

'Thank you.'

Bombs falling in Nazi Germany.