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"The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else."
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"When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves."

"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it."

"By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?"

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"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
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