“So here's a question from one who believed, only a week ago, that Baghdad might just collapse and that we might wake up one morning to find the Baathist militia and the Iraqi army gone and the Americans walking down Saadun Street with their rifles over their shoulders. If the Iraqis can still hold out against such overwhelming force in Umm Qasr for four days, if they can keep fighting in Basra and Nasiriyah – the latter a city that briefly rose in revolt against Saddam's regime in 1991 – why should Saddam's forces not keep fighting in Baghdad?” IfsShouldStillsMightFightingForceCitiesMorningGoneSuccessfulFourWeekStreetsWalkingArmyWake UpRoseShouldersLatterOverwhelmingCollapseSaddamRevoltRiflesBaghdadMilitiaOverwhelming Force Author:Robert Fisk
“I was a Teletype operator in the army, so that's where I learned to type. One day, I went downstairs to see if I could still type - I hadn't done it for four or five years after the war. So I typed out a page and I showed it to my wife and she said, "Where did you get this?" I said I wrote it. "You wrote this?" It was something very funny. I went and wrote another page, another couple of pages, and by the time I was finished I had 13 little short stories, humorous short stories.” IfsYearsLittlesSaidStillsWarDoneStoriesFiveFourWifeTypeCoupleOne DayPagesHumorousArmyMy WifeFinishedFive YearsIf I CouldShort StoryOperators Author:Carl Reiner
“Words can do wonderful things. They pound, purr. They can urge, they can wheedle, whip, whine. They can sing, sass, singe. They can churn, check, channelize. They can be a "Hup two three four." They can forge a fiery army of a hundred languid men.” MenTwoThreeCan DoFourWonderfulHundredArmyChecksUrgesPoundsWonderful ThingsWhipsFierySass Author:Gwendolyn Brooks
“I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.” YearsHalfFourArmySoldierAccidentsBrokeRehabilitationHalf A Year Author:Bear Grylls
“There was a time in my life when election year was nothing to me, but in 1912, I joined that great army of Americans who drop a stitch in their routine every four years, and give themselves up to backing first a candidate for the nomination and afterwards a nominee.” GivingYearsFirstsFourArmyElectionCandidatesRoutineFour YearsNominationsStitchesElection YearsGreat Army Author:Margaret Case Harriman
“I spent four years in the United States Army between 1985 and 1989, and I certainly learned how to survive out in the woods.” YearsStatesUnitedUnited StatesFourArmyWoodsFour YearsUnited States Army Author:Chad Coleman
“The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions.” LanguageInterestFourBuiltArmyBritishIndianEmpiresDivisionEnglish LanguageEnglishmenPillarsBuilder Book:Collected Works Source: Collected Works
“After being thrown out of the house, four schools and the United States Army, I discovered that I was on the right track.” StatesSchoolHouseUnitedUnited StatesFourArmyTrackThrownRight TrackUnited States Army Author:Robert Downey, Sr.