It's one thing to say don't commit atrocities on the battlefield. It's another thing to say don't get caught doing atrocities.

I think capital punishment's day is done in this country. I don't think it's fairly applied.

All of my high school male teachers were WWII and/or Korean War veterans. They taught my brothers and me the value of service to our country and reinforced what our dad had shown us about the meaning of service.

I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.

I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.

I know the difference between right and wrong, and I can tell good from bad. But I also know that the more difficult decisions come when we have to choose between good and better. The toughest calls of all are those we have to make between bad and worse.

History and war are cruel pedants. Those who know too little of the former are likely to have too much of the latter.