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Military retirement toasts
and sayings
Following are some military retirement toasts and sayings that may be
used at parties honoring retirees. You have a choice of quotations that are humorous or inspirational.
The party usually follows the official military retirement ceremony.
If you are giving a retirement party for a veteran, work in one or two of
these military retirement toasts or sayings to honor the solider, sailor, airman, marine or member of
the National Guard or Coast Guard.
Some military retirement toasts:
A
toast to one
Whose service has guaranteed
Our freedom to celebrate today.
A
toast to John
Who has served so that we
May live as we wish
In this land of the free
Today
we honor John and salute his service.
May we always remember that serving one’s country
Is the ultimate expression of love
For family, friends and neighbors.
 Other quotes and wisdom for military retirement toasts and speeches:
Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder if they have made a
difference in the world, but Marines don't have that problem.
--Ronald
Reagan
Freedom isn't free.
--Anonymous
Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid.
--David Hackworth
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you didn't plan your mission
properly.
--David Hackworth
Never share a fox hole with anyone braver than you.
--Anonymous
Never trust a private with a loaded weapon or an officer with a map.
--Anonymous
Coffee tastes better if the latrines are dug downstream from the
encampment.
--U.S.
Army Field Regulations, 1861
It is generally inadvisable to eject directly over the area you have
just bombed.
--
U.S. Air Force Manual
Soldiers usually win the battles and generals get the credit for them.
--Napoleon
Bonaparte
We make war that we may live in peace.
--Aristotle
Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be
free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.
--Thucydides
One of the best ways to keep peace is to be prepared for war.
--General
George Washington
The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes a little while
longer.
-- U.S. Navy Seabees
There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.
--Anonymous
Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo.
--Infantry
Journal
It is God's job to forgive Osama bin Laden.
It is our job to arrange a face-to-face meeting.
--General
H. Norman Schwartzkopf
We sleep safely in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night
to visit violence on those who would harm us.
--George
Orwell
They feed the crocodile in the hope that he will eat them last.
--Sir
Winston Churchill (referring to appeasers)
If you can read this, thank a teacher.
If you are reading it in English, thank a soldier.
--U.S.
bumper sticker
To be born free is an accident.
To live free is a privilege.
To die free is a responsibility.
--Brig.
Gen. James Sehorn
It is the soldier, not the reporter,
Who has given us freedom of the press.
It is the soldier, not the poet,
Who has given us freedom of speech.
It is the soldier, not the campus organizer
Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate.
It is the soldier, not the lawyer
Who has given us the right to a fair trial.
It is the soldier, like John, who salutes the flag,
who serves under the flag,
and whose coffin will be draped by the flag.
--Alternately
attributed to Father Dennis Edward O'Brien (USMC) and Charles M. Province (USA)
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