"It's definitely a relief to us who lives in here because of what's happening, when everything is over we will be able to go back to Haiti without worry, with knowing OK, without nothing bad happening, we'll feel like we're safe over there and then come again back to America safely."

VOA: special.2010.02.01

Just let me get you out of here first,all right? It's my dad! We have to go back!

VOA: standard.other

"The financial cost is a totally separate matter, and I think that as we're starting to feel the economic pinches here at home as the president has to go and ask for more money for Afghanistan, we'll probably see some similar sorts of pushbacks to what we had in Vietnam."

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

And you're trying to deal with, 'Oh,my gosh,there's the war, and this friend of our family has been killed,' or 'Do I want to go to the prom?'" And then, walking with my Marine father, wounded Marine, that's why he wasn't active duty, walking with him,and here he's a football coach at Cal , so if we go to an athletic event, there would be people painting their signs over in a corner of the parking lot or something and I'd be walking along and I'd be thinking that it was my job to protect my dad from the protesters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31