'Hogan's Heroes' lasted longer than the war.

They kept us on the air probably a year more than they should have.

I swear Kim Kardashian's first marriage lasted longer than some of my iPhone chargers.

The first time I ever saw people of any color was when D-Day left from my hometown in England, to go and free Europe from the war. And there was every color you could imagine, and I'd not seen that in England.

These kinds of comments have greater resonance if a policy or a war is under close scrutiny or going badly. The more critics there are, the more the retired officer is likely to get a favorable hearing.

It hath been an antient custom among them [Hungarians] that none should wear a fether but he who had killed a Turk, to whom onlie yt was lawful to shew the number of his slaine enemys by the number of fethers in his cappe.