Victory in combat is like sex with a prostitute. For a moment you forget everything in the sudden physical rush, but then you have to pay your money to the woman showing you the door. You see the dirt on the walls and your sorry image in the mirror.

War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.

I mean, if you're proud of what you've done when you've served in the military, well then we call that bragging. And if you are unhappy about what happened, we call that complaining. And so what are you going to do?

When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.

This nation should be less worried about putting the Vietnam syndrome behind us than restarting the World War II victory syndrome that resulted in the Vietnam syndrome in the first place.

It won't hurt you. It's just to kill plants. It's called Agent Orange...and it won't bother humans.

The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.