They're asking women to do impossible things. I don't believe women can carry a pack, live in a foxhole, or go a week without a bath.

By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

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

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.

I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.

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