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William Westmoreland
American
Soldier
About the author
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Public
#Vietnam
#Opinion
#Public opinion
I don't think I have been loved by my troops, but I think I have been respected.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Troops
I don't take criticism lying down.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Criticism
#Lying
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,
American
Soldier
#End
#Thought
#Vietnam
#Summer
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,
American
Soldier
#Enemy
#War
#Men
#Vietnam
#Credit
Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Public
#War
#First
#Mind
#Vietnam
#Censorship
Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Country
#Television
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,
American
Soldier
#First
I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Being
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,
American
Soldier
In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#End
It became very clear that Hanoi was in effect strategically running the Viet Cong operation.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Effect
#Running
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,
American
Soldier
#War
#Country
#First
#Television
#Media
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Vietnam
We had the best food any battlefield ever had.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Food
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,
American
Soldier
#Want
#War
#President
#Brothers
#Vietnam
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Military
#Politicians
The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#World
#American
#Man
The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#People
#Military
War is fear cloaked in courage.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Fear
#War
#Courage
We moved in to help the Vietnamese defend their country and confront the Viet Cong.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Country
#Help
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#War
#Winning
When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Food
#Vietnam
#Care
#Mail
#Medical
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Home
#Vietnam
#Soldiers
Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Public
#Mind
#Censorship
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,
American
Soldier
#Wife
#World
#War
#Job
#World war
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
William Westmoreland,
American
Soldier
#Vietnam
#Names