But let me — I better switch over here for some more — and may I — a question — and I don't mean to offend with regard to follow-up — and I understand why you had them, but we've been reduced to the number of questions we get to ask when everybody has a follow-up. So ask them both at once.
¶ Press conference (1984)
It is, in a way, an odd thing to honor those who died in defense of our country in wars far away. The imagination plays a trick. We see these soldiers in our mind as old and wise. We see them as something like the Founding Fathers, grave and gray-haired. But most of them were boys when they died, they gave up two lives -- the one they were living and the one they would have lived. When they died, they gave up their chance to be husbands and fathers and grandfathers. They gave up their chance to be revered old men. They gave up everything for their county, for us. All we can do is remember.
¶ Remarks at Veteran's Day ceremony, Arlington National Cemetery (11 Nov. 1985)