"Intelligence on Vietcong positions and movements frequently arrived too late to be actionable, delayed in an informat…"

"The war is simply an obscenity, a depraved act by weak and miserable men, including all of us who have allowed it to …"

"You sense a strong sense of mission among the fighting men in Viet Nam, an enormous compassion for all victims of Com…"

"By Thanksgiving, 1967, we still had not made any really final decision about whether or not we'd return for another t…"

"The Vietnam war literally brought this country to its knees because, without going into the technicalities of what Co…"

"Now then, the question is, How can we move to begin to change what's going on in this country. I maintain, as we have…"

"We thought, We will go to Vietnam and be Audie Murphies. Kick in the door, run in the hooch, give it a good burst- ki…"

"And for the men in the audience, hands down, the worst PTSD in the war is in the women who served as surgical nurses …"

"The Road to Viet Nam, and to the other important places Mr. Hope visits at Christmas, had to end for Bob and me after…"

"There were only two types of people when I came home- those who were against what we did and those who said nothing. …"