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War is fear cloaked in courage.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Courage
Peace
War
Anti War
Military
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I don't take criticism lying down.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Criticism
Lying
Military
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We'll blast them back into the stone ages!
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Peace
Age
War
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We had the best food any battlefield ever had.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Battlefield
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The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Peace
Fear
War
Military
Wars
Politicians
Start
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Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Country
Instruments
Television
Instrument
Paralyze
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Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Censorship
Confused
Mind
Silly
Thinking
Public
Without
Terribly
Public Mind
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We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Ends
Important
Views
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The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Military
People
Everybody Else
Turbulent
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I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Military
Thinking
Troops
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We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Moved
Vietnamese
Confront
Defend
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In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Asia
Communist
Military
Southeast Asia
Communists
In The End
Southeast
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Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Engagement
Involved
Military
Vietnam
Won
Succeeded
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It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Running
Hanoi
Operations
Effect
Operation
Strategically
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When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Care
Mail
Vietnam
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When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Medical
Emphasis
Mail
Medical Care
Vietnam
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We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
War
Attrition
Succeed
Winning
Looked
Succeeding
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The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Ideas
Politician
Vietnam
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I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Lynching
Participating
Participation
Problem
Know My Own Own
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As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Opinion
Potency
Public Opinion
Senior
Vietnam
Worried
Aware
Commander
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The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Masterpiece
Memorial
Military
Names
Vietnam
Listed
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The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Men
Military
Should Have
Soldier
Man World Me
Criticized
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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 / Military Commander
Adequate
Captains
Firsts
Outstanding
Captain
Figured
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Anytime it was advertised that I was going to be at a particular place, the radicals would be there, the cameras with TV news.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Cameras
Military
Tv News
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This was a type of war that we'd had no experience with before. Some of our policies were kind of trial and error in character.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
War
Character
Military
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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 / Military Commander
Forthcoming
Made
Military
Offensive
Again
Times
Over
Statement
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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 / Military Commander
Impossible
Summer
Vietnam
Heck
South Vietnam
Survive
To Survive
Virtually
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My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Jobs
War
Wife
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My wife was my greatest asset. I didn't marry her until after World War II, but she has complemented me in every job I've ever had.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
World War Ii
Asset
Marry
Greatest Asset
World War
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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.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Inspiring
Home
Memorial
Memories
Military
Parades
Vietnam
Came
Celebrations
Soldiers
Themselves
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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.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Women
Believe
Impossible Things
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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.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
War
Brother
Johnson
Military
Vietnam
Vietnam War
Broaden
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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 / Military Commander
War
Censorship
Confused
Mind
Vietnam
First
Public
Ever
Terribly
Fought
Public Mind
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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.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
War
Country
Media
Reign
Television
Had
First
Full
Ever
Fought
Screen
Where
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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.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Men
War
Believe
Credit
Deserve
Difficult
Enemy
Given
Vietnam
Against
Served
Uniform
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I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Apology
Best Effort
Regret
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I see battlefields that are under 24-hour real or near-real time surveillance of all types. I see battlefields on which we can destroy anything we can locate through instant communications and almost instantaneous application of highly lethal firepower.
William Westmoreland / Military Commander
Communication
Real
Surveillance
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