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

William Westmoreland

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William Westmoreland
Age: 91 †
Born: 1914
Born: March 26
Died: 2005
Died: July 19
Military Commander
Military Officer
Politician
Spartanburg
South Carolina
William Childs Westmoreland
William C. Westmoreland
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Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
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When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail
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The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.
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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.
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War is fear cloaked in courage.
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It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
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We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
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In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
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The politicians in Washington just had no idea about the complexity of the situation in South Vietnam.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't take criticism lying down.
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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?
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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 .
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The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
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Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
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As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
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The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
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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.
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