“When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.”
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It's a tough thing, to know what to do about a war that deep in your gut you feel is wrong and yet watch your peers going off to fight in that war.
It is not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security clearly requires it.
I make one pledge above all others - to seek and speak the truth with all the resources of mind and spirit I command.
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
