The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
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.
War is fear cloaked in courage.
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
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.
I don't take criticism lying down.
Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.
The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.
In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.
The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
