“It’s more accurate to say our country did not fulfill its commitment to South Vietnam,” he said. “By virtue of Vietnam, the U.S. held the line for 10 years and stopped the dominoes from falling.”
He would later say he did not know how history would deal with him.
“Few people have a field command as long as I did,” he said. “They put me over there and they forgot about me. But I was there seven days a week, working 14 to 16 hours a day.
“I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts,” he added. “I’ve been hung in effigy. I’ve been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off.”
Later, after many of the wounds caused by the divisive conflict began to heal, Westmoreland led thousands of his comrades in the November, 1982, veterans march in Washington to dedicate the Vietnam War Memorial.
He called it “one of the most emotional and proudest experiences of my life.”
We should not have been there in the first place.
56,000 dead. For nothing.
The military did not lose the war. Washington did.
Bump that.
The Left wing Liberal John Kerry, William Clinton Democrats
>>The military did not lose the conflict in SE Asia. The government did.<<
More specifically, one Robert McNamara. There's a lot of blood on that old bastard's hands.