The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
I will continue to work in Washington to oppose any efforts to expand drilling off our Coasts and to challenge my colleagues to adopt responsible energy policies.
Then I want to beat Anthony Davis' shot-block record, and I want to win National Player of the Year. I definitely plan to put the work in to accomplish those goals.
My mother's families were Mennonites or Anabaptists that came to Minnesota from Russia. They were actually moving around Europe doing diking and lowland reclamation work, and they moved into Minnesota.
I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.
The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.
I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the South begs for mercy.
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
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