Military
- John James Abert, explorer and soldier
- Earl E. Anderson, United States Marine Corps general
- John Ashby, frontiersman and soldier
- Woodrow Wilson Barr, United States Marine
- Frank Buckles, last surviving U.S. veteran of World War I
- French Ensor Chadwick, naval officer and educator
- Lynndie England, U.S. Army reservist involved in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal
- Stonewall Jackson, soldier and teacher
- Albert G. Jenkins, general and politician
- Jonah Edward Kelley, US Army soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
- Edwin Gray Lee, Confederate general
- Carwood Lipton, US Army soldier
- John P. Lucas, American general, commander at Anzio
- Jessica Lynch, prisoner of war
- William E. Shuck, Jr., U.S. Marine, Medal of Honor recipient
- Hershel W. Williams, U.S. Marine, Medal of Honor recipient
- John Yarnall, U.S. Navy officer
- Chuck Yeager, aviation legend
- Ruby Bradley, most decorated woman in United States military history
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Famous quotes containing the word military:
“Nothing changes my twenty-six years in the military. I continue to love it and everything it stands for and everything I was able to accomplish in it. To put up a wall against the military because of one regulation would be doing the same thing that the regulation does in terms of negating people.”
—Margarethe Cammermeyer (b. 1942)
“My faith is the grand drama of my life. I’m a believer, so I sing words of God to those who have no faith. I give bird songs to those who dwell in cities and have never heard them, make rhythms for those who know only military marches or jazz, and paint colours for those who see none.”
—Olivier Messiaen (1908–1992)
“There was somewhat military in his nature, not to be subdued, always manly and able, but rarely tender, as if he did not feel himself except in opposition. He wanted a fallacy to expose, a blunder to pillory, I may say required a little sense of victory, a roll of the drum, to call his powers into full exercise.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)