“If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.”
Quoted in Mackubin Thomas Owens, "Marines Turned Soldiers", National Review Online, December 10, 2001
Eric Ken Shinseki ist ein ehemaliger General der US Army. Er diente von 1999 bis 2003 als 34. Chief of Staff of the Army und war von 2009 bis Ende Mai 2014 Kriegsveteranenminister im Kabinett des US-Präsidenten Barack Obama. Shinseki war der erste US-Bürger asiatischer Abstammung, der zum Vier-Sterne-General, zum Stabschef der Streitkräfte und zum Kriegsveteranenminister ernannt wurde. Wikipedia
“If you dislike change, you're going to dislike irrelevance even more.”
Quoted in Mackubin Thomas Owens, "Marines Turned Soldiers", National Review Online, December 10, 2001
About the Medal of Honor awardees. Quoted in "Rising Sons" - Page 260 - by Bill Yenne - History - 2007
Quoted in "Forever Young: Ten Gifts of Faith for the Graduate" - Page 156 - by Pat Williams, Karen Kingsbury - Religion - 2005
“I do not want to criticize while my soldiers are still bleeding and dying in Iraq.”
General Eric K. Shinseki to associates; quoted in [Thom, Shanker, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/washington/12shinseki.html?_r=5&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=login, New Strategy Vindicates Ex-Army Chief Shinseki, The New York Times, January 12, 2007, 2007-01-13]