Union Gen. Joseph Shields wrote in 1862 that soldiers, "if not allowed to go home and see their families … droop and die.
But no one knows whether ordinary soldiers, if ordered to fire on unarmed demonstrators, would obey.
I like soldiers if I am nostalgic or have an egg to dip into.
I'm one of America's greatest soldiers, if you want to know the truth.
I wouldn't be surprised if those soldiers, if the cash didn't get there".
"Every time I go out, I ask soldiers if any of them believe we are not winning," he said.
On the water, they were shooed back to shore by soldiers if officials from the Ministry of Defense were around.
"Mr. Muhammad further stated that he would have killed more soldiers if they had been on the parking lot".
The resident in Baniyas said that protesters there had carried olive branches and red and white roses to hand to soldiers if the troops entered the city.
A nervous young villager, captured in the valley, informs the soldiers, "If we tell you about the Taliban, then we will get killed".
The Iraqi government had declined to grant immunity from prosecution to United States soldiers if the deadline for an American withdrawal were extended.
