Quotes 21 till 25 of 25.
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We were ordered out to quell an uprising of the Indians, and were out for several days, had numerous skirmishes during which six of the soldiers were killed and several severely wounded.
Source: The Life and Adventures of Calamity Jane: A Short Memoir (2013 edition), HarperCollins -
Well, look at what people are doing for returned veterans now. The wounded warriors. They're working hard to make the wounded veterans feel that they are loved and welcomed home, unlike Vietnam. It was not a very kind, gentle world then. I think we are kinder and gentler.
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When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier.
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With the help of a friend I got father into a wagon, when the crowd had gone. I held his head in my lap during the ride home. I believed he was mortally wounded. He had been stabbed down through the kidneys, leaving an ugly wound.
Source: An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (2009 edition), Arc Manor LLC -
[One soldier to another aiming a gun at a mouse:] Aim between the eyes, Joe. Sometimes they charge when they're wounded.
Source: Willie & Joe: Overseas, 1943-1945, p. 123
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