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• These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
• You remember all those phrases about how these people - Asians - dont value human life like we do. Well if you…
• The destruction of civilian hamlets, the killing and the wounding of civilians, became vastly greater than it had been before, and it…
• We had a military and political leadership at that period which was genuinely deluded.
• Americans, particularly after World War II, tended to romanticize war because in World War II our cause was the cause of humanity,…
• Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.
• I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the…
• World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume…
• At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and…
• I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from…
• We thought that whatever we wanted to do was right and good, simply because we were Americans, and we would succeed at…
• We wanted to see this country win the war just as much as those advisors did. We felt we would help to…

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