- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Ah, I wanna tell you something about Joe; something about me. What I saw in Kuwait, before that I was different. It took something from me. It's what war does. Sometimes I think if my girls had been there when I got home, maybe they wouldn't have recognized me. Maybe there wouldn't have been enough of me left for them to hang on to. Maybe the best of me was gone. You come home, and you are like half a person. The other half of ya is still back there where at least it made sense. Where even with the bullets, and the blood, and the chaos, ya knew what mattered. Ya knew that the guy next to you was willing to die for you, and you for him, and you look around and think, it shouldn't take a war to make the world that simple.
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: We already have the intruder in custody
- Leon Vance: So, you have a location on the medal?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: Eh, no
- Leon Vance: What's holding him?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: The suspect is 95
- Gloria Caplinger: I don't understand. Is that code for something?
- Leroy Jethro Gibbs: No, it's his age ma'am
- Joseph Smith: I was on the quarterdeck, waiting for colors. And then me and Ozzie O'Connor were gonna catch the liberty launch and toss the football on the beach. Then I heard a plane approaching. I looked up. I saw the red ball on its wing, and I knew. I ran to my battle station in the gun pit, and that's when we caught the big bomb. It was like the devil opened his mouth and made a noise that was all screaming. The steel! The fire! The men. I got orders to go topside, where I saw these body parts all over the deck. Men stumbling through, no hair, no clothes, charred to the bone.
- Joseph Smith: I pulled three men out of the water. Two, I didn't know. The third... the third was Ozzie... O'Connor. He was trying to put a piece of flesh back on his face. I remember thinking about all the times his mother must have kissed that cheek. And how we should have been tossing a football.
- Joseph Smith: You'd like to know where your purple heart is, don't you? Well I'm not gonna say a damn thing till I get a root beer.