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During their service, men and women in our Armed Forces live by a common creed, promising never to leave a soldier behind. We should live by the same principle. When our veterans are asked to travel hundreds of miles for care that's offered right next door, we simply aren't living up to that standard, and something has to change.

War is much too serious a thing to be left to military men.

I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.

There is no common sense in going to the field to fight and leaving a man at home to undo all that you accomplish.

But if you're going to go out on a military unit, you've got to allow yourself to be under the control of the commander because you really could put the troops in danger.

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

My men have sometimes failed to take a position, but to defend one, never!

I don't miss the bureaucracy of being in the Army. But I still love the relationships you can build. And it doesn't have to be in military service - it can be anything you're doing with someone that matters. You develop a bond.

Once an Armyman, always an Armyman.

As a civilian during the Second War, I was exposed to danger in circumstances which removed any distinction between the man in and the man out of uniform.