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...their faces. You could put anybody on those paper mache mountains and say, "These are the guys who raised the flag." Who was to know? It wasn't like you see a movie with Gary Cooper or James Cagney standing there. It turned out they even had one wrong guy listed...
...with a lot of vets. I went to a 60th anniversary in San Francisco and there was a panel of vets. All of them, to a man, said that they'd only come out in the last couple of years, and this was a 60th anniversary. One guy I talked to was Danny Thomas, who was a corpsman like Bradley, the same decorations and everything - he said it took him 55 years before he could talk about it, even in passing...
...think everyone is looking for who's the hero that is going to get us out of what we're in now. I heard somebody on the radio the other day - one of these talk shows - saying, "Oh, where's the new General Patton? Where's the guy who says, 'I don't give a s--- what the politicians want, this is what we should...
...military is so bureaucratized now. It's hard for a guy to assert that kind of will. He's going to end up a major on a base in New Mexico; he's not going to be a Colin Powell...
...chance to get out of prison because his dad was an admiral, and the Vietnamese were going to let him go... I mean that took cojones, donating another three and a half to four years of his life to stay in prison, rather than be the one guy who gets to walk away: "Hey, fellas, I'll say hello to everybody." Pat Tillman, giving up his NFL career to fight - and die - for his country, is like that for me, too. But most of the political structure I get so disappointed at. We're reduced to a society that...