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Sorry.. I don't have a link to any of his interviews. We just watched them first hand.. and any accounts we give to you were from seeing and hearing him say things firsthand (and with a great amount of astonishment in the beginning).

As to him being able to teach this generation, I would seriously doubt the ability of our Dad (85 and still quite robust)to fly a B-17 Bomber again. I would seriously doubt my ability to work in medicine again. Absence may make the heart grow fonder,.. and experience NORMALLY is a great tool for teaching, but only when ones memory is good. There comes a day when a person needs to step away from the Mic. I would say that day has come for Hack. Sorry.. but this is our personal observation. And, I might add.. the observation of quite a few who have witnessed his insanity of late. If you saw and heard the "Hack" of late,. you wouldn't recognize him from his autobiographies or books.

FRegards, Vets

My step-father now dying, went ashore with the first wave at Normandy (Big Red One). i agree, he is beyond teaching. None the less, this is a glaring weakness in our Military structure. Why can't men like Gen. Hal Moore, or Gen. Hank Emerson, or Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf (both Jr. and Sr. when he was alive),be used so that the establishment never forgets the lessons that the men of the past generations paid for in blood? Hack relates a story of his visit to Korea when he went back in 94. He is interviewing Sr. Generals of the ROK army, and they ask him to lecture the Korean troops about the Korean War, because THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT WHO FOUGHT IN THE WAR. It took Hack about a minute to realise that indeed, it had been 40 years. i keep wondering how fast Desert Storm would have ended if Creighton Abrams (37th armoured batallion, 3rd army, battle of the bulge, WWII) had been in command instead of Schwarzkoph.