Jim Webb actually said...

"I think so much of it comes from the improvised explosive devices, where people are inside vehicles and you have this echoing impact that a regular blast, in other wars, did not really experience."

"That's a huge leadership question, too, when you turn around to people who are out there really having to do the hard work, and you can turn around and say somebody came in for a change of command for..."

"A Veteran--AD, Reserve, NG, or Retired is someone who, at one point in their life, wrote a blank check made payable to 'The United States of America,' for an amount of 'up to and including my life.'"

"there's no better recruiter than a veteran who goes back to his or her home community, and is proud of what they did."