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Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

~William Westmoreland

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

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War is fear cloaked in courage.

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I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

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

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

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President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

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

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It's the first war we've ever fought on the television screen and the first war that our country ever fought where the media had full reign.

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In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Soldier

Born: March 26th, 1914

Died: July 18th, 2005

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