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"We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning."
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"The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion."
"So far war has been the only force that can discipline a whole community and until an equivalent discipline is organized I believe that war must have its way."
"In the matter of war, ask this question to yourself and to your own fellow country men: Have you ever seen any politician in your country without legs, without arms, without eyes after war? No! You can't see such a thing because honourless politicians always stay in the safe ports while they send others to the zone of death!"
"War is so unjust and ugly that all who wage it must try to stifle the voice of conscience within themselves."
"War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it."
"A woman protested saying, "Of course it was a righteous war. My son fell in it."."
"In war, when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails to understand the dependence of arms on Divine guidance, he no longer deserves victory."
"In war there is no prize for runner-up."
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"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."
"Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind."
"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 Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names."
"I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for."
"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."
"The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me."
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