"If you have to defend liberty, you've got to defend liberty. It's as simple as that. But I found the actual combat a …"

"The South Vietnamese were never highly thought of but one thing in retrospect that is of interest to me is the percep…"

"Young people don't have enough peripheral vision, they can't see very far into the future. Toward the end of my colle…"

"I remember George Aiken, this senator from Vermont, got up in the Senate- and this was long before we made that huge …"

"You don't think you're going to get shot. And, as a matter of fact, even when you get shot, you think it's a big mist…"

"Sure the Vietnamese were reluctant, they didn't want to fight. They were true believers, but they were reluctant part…"

"It happens, stuff like that happens, and you do what you have to do and you don't think about it. People who do these…"

"It has made me more aware of a number of things. First of all, how important each person's contribution is to society…"

"When you have nearly completed the ROTC program and are approaching graduation and commissioning, you request a speci…"

"When I was decorated in 1969, there were 450 living recipients of the Medal of Honor. Today, there are only about one…"