The next thing I
The next thing I knew, I was out of the service and making movies again. My first picture was called, GI Blues. I thought I was still in the army. Elvis Presley
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Along with the GI
Along with the GI Bill, which educated and housed Eisenhower’s fellow veterans, the Interstate System has proved to be by far the most important economic-development strategy of the federal government. David S. Broder
I knew I wanted
I knew I wanted to write on religious themes when I was a GI in World War II. I saw and experienced so much violence that I thought I could express my outrage best with music. Dave Brubeck
In Iraq, four American
In Iraq, four American soldiers have been arrested and charged with stealing a million dollars cash. After hearing about it the Fox network announced plans for a new reality show called ‘GI Joe Millionaire.’ Conan O’Brien
I did a lot
I did a lot of reading of first person accounts from Koreans and combatants and aid workers. And I spoke to relatives. A lot of wonderful photographs were made available to me from that period – 1950-1956 – and those were given to me by a Korean newspaper in Seoul. Ruined villages, refugees streaming through … Read more
[On the Barbie doll:]
[On the Barbie doll:] Her values, while somewhat Yuppified, are not so bad. Look at GI Joe. His only wardrobe is fatigues, he spends all his time trying to kill people, or getting his own innards splashed across the landscape. His big hobby is death. Caryl Rivers
Surprisingly I’ve never really
Surprisingly I’ve never really stolen anything. One time when I was really young, I was walking down the street, found a GI Joe in the mud, and took it home and I was like, “I got a GI Joe!” And then my great grandmother was like, “You stole that.” I said, “What are you talking … Read more
A good GI bill
A good GI bill would increase the recruit pool. Barack Obama
I am just coming
I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable. … Read more
Potatoes have such a
Potatoes have such a high GI rating; it’s almost the same as eating table sugar. Al Sears