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I think when you see an aircraft fire, these angry, black puffs of smoke, knowing that one of them could kill you that you - you - you understand the seriousness of the mission. And you understand your own mortality.

— George H. W. Bush

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I thought I was going to be killed. The casualties were so heavy, it was just a given. I learned to take each day, each mission, as it came. That's an attitude I've carried into my professional life. I take each case, each job, as it comes.

— Elliot Richardson

I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.

— Balthazar Getty

I know how to stay focused on a mission.

— Mike Pompeo

I've got to say that is - the highest emotion of the human experience is going down in a plane knowing your going to die!

— Louis Zamperini

To suspect your own mortality is to know the beginning of terror, to learn irrefutably that you are mortal is to know the end of terror.

— Frank Herbert

You learn to know a pilot in a storm.

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I think we all have our own mission, duty, fate in life so for me somehow I think I am always walking on the edge of life and take risks.

— Bai Ling

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

— Samuel Fuller

But the other thing is that I feel very confident in the individual pilots. They are tremendous individuals. They are individuals that have sworn to protect and defend our very citizens. That's why we serve.

— Hugh Shelton

✗Opposing Perspectives

Like, to do a pilot, you don't know what's going to happen with it.

— Jenna Elfman