Those are the humble words of Pfc. John Wardell, 99, as he and U.S. Army Ranger veterans from World War II were honored with the Congressional Gold Medal on Thursday.

And in 1917 when the United States entered World War I, the Army rushed to expand, taking a force of little over 300,000 to more than 2 million. U.S. Army soldiers in World War I. U.S. Army photo.

It’s about time America did, too.” Trump traced U.S. military operations from the Continental Army in the Revolutionary War to the Civil War, and from World War I and II into the modern times.