Sampson Mathews (c. 1737- January 20, 1807) was an 18th century American soldier, legislator, and college founder in the colony (and later U.S. state) of Virginia.
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The phrase was also suggested by the title of the Toby Keith album Shock'n Y'all, the hit from which was the pro-military "American Soldier".
George Dilboy (1896–1918), American soldier of Ottoman-Greek descent
Juan Alamia (1876–1913), American soldier who fought in the Spanish-American War
Arthur J. Forrest (1896–1964), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
Benjamin Alvord, Jr. (1860–1927), son of the above, American soldier, U.S. general during World War I
Benjamin F. Wilson (1922–1988), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
In 2011, she wrote the introduction and foreword to military combat photographer Russell Klika's book Iraq: Through the Eyes of an American Soldier.
Charles Justin Bailey (June 21, 1859 – September 21, 1946) was an American soldier, born in Tamaqua, Pa. He graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1880 and in the same year was appointed third lieutenant.
William Saunders Crowdy (August 11, 1847 – August 4, 1908) was an American soldier, preacher, entrepreneur, theologian, and pastor.
Daniel Webster Turner (1877–1969), American soldier and governor of Iowa
David M. Gonzales (1923–1945), American soldier in World War II, Medal of Honor recipient
David Kenyon Webster (1922–1961), American soldier, journalist and author
Donald W. Duncan (born 1930), American soldier and anti-war activist
Donald R. Johnston (1947–1969), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
Colonel Edward Buchanan Cassatt (August 23, 1869 – January 31, 1922) was an American soldier and an owner/breeder of Thoroughbred racehorses.
Edwin Gray Lee (1836–1870), American soldier and Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War
Joseph Polowsky, an American soldier who met Soviet troops on Elbe Day, was deeply affected by the experience and devoted much of his life to opposing war.
It contains the graves of 6,012 American soldiers who died while fighting in this vicinity during World War I including the poet, Joyce Kilmer and, until 1987, Eddie Slovik, a deserter and the first American soldier to be executed for desertion since the American Civil War.
Frank H. Reid (1850–1898), American soldier, teacher, city engineer and vigilante
In 2010, an album that an American soldier looted from Hitler's home, Berghof, during the war that catalogued artwork Hitler desired for the museum is to be returned to Germany.
George Benjamin, Jr. (1919–1944), American soldier who fought in the Philippines campaigns of 1944–1945, and received a posthumous Medal of Honor
George N. Bliss (1837–1928), American soldier in the American Civil War
Arthur Frommer, an American soldier stationed in Europe during the Korean War, used his experience traveling around the Continent as the basis for Europe on $5 a Day (1957), which introduced readers to options for budget travel in Europe.
Henry F. Chandler (1835–1906), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
Herman C. Wallace (1924–1945), American soldier in World War II posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor
James W. Archer (1828–1908), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
James M. Drake (1837–1913), American soldier who fought in the American Civil War
John W. Sprague (1817–1894), American soldier and railroad executive
Joseph Inslee Anderson (November 5, 1757 – April 17, 1837) was an American soldier, judge, and politician, who served as a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1799 to 1815, and later as the first Comptroller of the United States Treasury.
In August 2005 Northern was arrested and charged with criminal mischief after he drove his pickup truck through the Arlington West display of memorial crosses (each bearing the name of an American soldier killed in Iraq) that had been set up at Camp Casey, the protest site organized by peace activist Cindy Sheehan near the ranch of President George W. Bush near Crawford, Texas.
Luigi Palma di Cesnola (July 29, 1832 – November 20, 1904), an Italian-American soldier, diplomat and amateur archaeologist, was born in Rivarolo Canavese, near Turin.
Mark Harden Blandford (1826–1902), American soldier, attorney, politician and judge
Michael B. Ellis (1894–1937), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
Jared C. Monti - Received the United States military's highest decoration for valor, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in Afghanistan attempting to rescue a wounded American soldier while under fire from enemy insurgents.
Rick Rescorla (1939-2001), retired British and American soldier, and security chief for Morgan Stanley who died in the 9/11 terrorist attack.
He had a rare heroic role as a war-weary Japanese-American soldier in Samuel Fuller's Korean War classic The Steel Helmet (1951), but he spent much of the latter part of his career performing stock roles in films and minor television roles.
Robert G. Cole (1915–1944), American soldier who received the Medal of Honor
The two photographic albums were in the possession of heirs to an American soldier stationed in the Berchtesgaden area of Germany in the closing days of World War II.
Rod Langway was born when his father, an American serviceman, was stationed in Taiwan, and he is the only NHL player to have been born in Republic of China.
For example, in November 2010, Dr. Jeffery K. Taubenberger of the National Institutes of Health discovered the earliest proof of Sickle-cell disease while looking for the virus of the 1918 flu during the autopsy of an African-American soldier.
Thomas H. Forsyth (1842–1908), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient
In the opinion of the average American soldier who came of age during the Peace movement of the 1960s, Vietnam was lost a long time ago.
Paul Vandervoort (1846-1902), American soldier who served in the Union Army
This film portrays the actions of an American soldier, David Manning (Ron Eldard), during the World War II Battle of Hürtgen Forest, a battle between the United States Army and German Wehrmacht which took place from September 14, 1944 to February 10, 1945 on the Western Front.
William Guarnere (born 1923), American soldier in the 101st Airborne during World War II, made famous by the mini-series Band of Brothers
William Remsburg Grove (1872–1952), American soldier and winner of the Medal of Honor
William Emery Merrill (1837–1891), American soldier and military engineer
James W. Reese, American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient, went by his middle name "William"
John P. Yount (1850–1872), American soldier and Medal of Honor recipient