William Westmoreland

“I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.”

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

“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.”

“It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.”

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

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

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