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William Westmoreland

William Childs Westmoreland (March 26, 1914 – July 18, 2005) was a United States Army general, who most notably commanded U.S. forces during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968. He served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1968 to 1972.

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The military lead turbulent lives, but they are people like everybody else.

Lead, Like, Military, People, Turbulent

I was participating in my own lynching, but the problem was I didn't know what I was being lynched for.

Know, Lynched, Lynching, Participation, Problem

We'll blast them back into the stone ages!

Age, Ages, Back, Peace, Stone, War

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

Loved, Military, Think, Thinking, Troops

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

Adequate, Captain, Captains, Firsts, Outstanding, Student

The last man in the world who should have been criticized was the American soldier. They should have criticized me.

American, Men, Military, Should Have, Soldier, World

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.

Battlefields, Communication, Locate, Real, Surveillance, Time

Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

Censorship, Confused, Silly, Terribly, Things, Thinking

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.

Believe, Foxhole, Impossible, Impossible Things, Week, Women

We have reached an important point when the end begins to come into view.

Come, Ends, Important, Point, View, Views

Television is an instrument which can paralyze this country.

Country, Instrument, Instruments, Paralyze, Television

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.

Character, Kind, Military, Trial, Type, War

In the end, we lost IndoChina to the communists. But we did not lose Southeast Asia.

Asia, Communist, Indochina, Lose, Military, Southeast

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

Home, Inspiring, Memories, Military, Soldiers, Vietnam

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.

Apologies, Apology, Best Effort, Hung, Regret, Regrets

Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.

Engagement, Involved, Militarily, Military, Succeeded, Vietnam

We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

Looked, Succeed, Succeeding, War, Winning

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail

Care, Mail, Took, Vietnam

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.

Forthcoming, Known, Made, Military, Offensive, Tet

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

Became, Hanoi, Operation, Operations, Running

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