Famous quotes by Soldiers

"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"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic"

John A. Logan, Soldier

"When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"War is fear cloaked in courage"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

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

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, no winter in thy year"

John A. Logan, Soldier

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

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"I appeal to you as a soldier to spare me the humiliation of seeing my regiment march to meet the enemy and I not share its dangers"

George Armstrong Custer, Soldier

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

William Westmoreland, Soldier

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

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

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

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"I've made this statement many times: If I would have to do it over again, I would have made known the forthcoming Tet Offensive"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"I don't take criticism lying down"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

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

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"We had the best food any battlefield ever had"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

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

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

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

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"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?"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

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

William Westmoreland, Soldier

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

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else"

William Westmoreland, Soldier

"I would be willing, yes glad, to see a battle every day during my life"

George Armstrong Custer, Soldier

"You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned, I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end"

George Armstrong Custer, Soldier

"I was well beaten myself, and I am better for it"

Bernard Law Montgomery, Soldier

"Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear"

Bernard Law Montgomery, Soldier

"Decentralize command"

Jocko Willink, Soldier

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