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Military Quotes by William Westmoreland
- Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.
- I don't take criticism lying down.
- I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.
- I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive.
- In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
- Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
- The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
- This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.
- The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.
- The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
- President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
- The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
- When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
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