War is fear cloaked in courage.

I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can destroy anything we can locate through instant communications and almost instantaneous application of highly lethal firepower.

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.

I don't take criticism lying down.

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student.

It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.