By and large, eight years after the war, the U.S. government has done a rather poor job in responding to the needs of tens of thousands of veterans,

You've heard New Orleans is poor, ... Well, it's poor because the government lets it be that way. The minimum wage is $5.25 an hour. You can't live on that.

He said that picture is what got him though the war.

Feed the poor and get rich or feed the rich and get poor.

They were fighting a different war.

No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.