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

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.

I don't take criticism lying down.

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

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

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

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