1.   Bush said Bedford was the right choice for commemorating the citizen soldiers who led the attack on Normandy.

2.   But the announcement Monday significantly expands the reliance on the citizen soldiers.

3.   Citizen soldiers typically carry their rifles while traveling to and from periodic military training.

4.   Matt Damon plays the elusive Pvt. Ryan as a more idealized citizen soldier than the men we spend more time with.

5.   The troops who accomplished that mission were not professional soldiers, but citizen soldiers.

6.   We had shared, as citizen soldiers, a common mortal endeavor on which our national survival depended.

7.   When, however, he writes about the citizen soldier, he himself all too often sounds more like the professional soldier.

8.   The disclosures shook Israel, a country of citizen soldiers raised in the belief that they hold the high moral ground on the battlefield with the Arab armies.