When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.
It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.
I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
War is fear cloaked in courage.
We had the best food any battlefield ever had.