U.S. Army/ Marines etc.?

Question

How did you deal with being away from your family?

What motivated you to keep going?

I have a friend who is very homesick and I want to send him

a couple quotes from people who went through this already.

It's 10 easy points.

Thank you!

Answer 1

From my own experience, it was when they reminded me they were proud of what I was doing. I knew that I was doing the right thing, but it made me feel good when I knew that someone else thought so as well.

Answer 2

You just deal with it.  Often times, doing what is right is not easy.  That does not mean you should not do it.

In the Army, we had a saying -- takes the 'hard right over the easy wrong'.

It means the same as 'suck it up and drive on'.  Or 'just do it'.  Or whatever...

Answer 3

ive always like

"A champion is someone who gets up, even when they can't"

- Natalie Rogers

Answer 4

Some "gems" from Gen George S. Patton Jr. that got me though.

"May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't."

- General George Patton Jr

"No b*****d ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making

the other poor dumb b*****d die for his country."

- General George Patton Jr.

And the best one

"Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristic in men."

- General George S. Patton, Jr

Answer 5

When i was in Baghdad for a year and a half i HATED it, i missed my family, food was HORRIBLE and i didnt have know what was around that street corner or inside that house, i took huge risk to fight for our freedom!! Sometimes i wondered why, i couldve stayed at home, went to college and had a good life. One day i was on patrol in Baghdad I was walking down a street that was destroyed, ( i do believe a suicide bomber had killed his self there about a week and a half before i got there) but anyways there was this girl about 13 or 14  she sorta leaped out from behind a mangaled car, my buddy almost shot her, luckily i told him to hold on in the knick of time. When the little girl approached me i was at first apprehensive, but then when i seen she was clear i approached her,Know i dont speak fluent Iraqi but I speak enough to get by so I instantly asked her what she was doing here , this young  girl said something to me i will never forget, she said, I have no mom, i have no dad, i have no family left, the only thing i do have is the hope that one day i will be free! She is what got me through my time in Baghdad! So when im asked was i homesick i say yea, but i was in Iraqi to complete a mission, a mission to let people who had been enslaved by homocidal leader, finally breath free air. Tell your friend he is very brave,tell him to keep his head up,he is fighting for freedom!

Answer 6

Okay.

"the nail that sticks up, gets hammered down."

Old Japanese saying. It is true. Chill, bro.