We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view.

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

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

I don't take criticism lying down.

Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.