:50:01
And that's what it's like to be
when you become a prisoner,
:50:06
particularly,
a prisoner of war.
:50:08
Because the thing that got us through
were the things we learned...
:50:11
before we were ten years old.
:50:14
I"d like to open up
to questions now.
:50:17
Just raise your hand or yell it out
and you can ask any question you want.
:50:20
and I"ll do the best I can
to answer them.
:50:25
How did you feel when
the Vietnam war was over?
:50:28
How did I feel
when the war was over?
:50:31
I felt real good.
Real good.
:50:33
It was a long war
and a very difficult war to understand.
:50:37
But the reason we went there
was to win this war.
:50:41
I volunteered to go.
I'd go again if I had to.
:50:45
And we wanted to win.
That was our number one ambition.
:50:48
That's what we really wanted,
was to win this war.
:50:50
And it took us a long time.
So when we knew that we had won,
:50:54
we felt great;
we really felt great.
:50:57
- What did Vietnam look like?
- What did Vietnam look like.
:51:02
Well, if it wasn"t for the people,
it was very pretty.
:51:05
Uh, the people over there
are very backward and very primitive.
:51:08
And they just make a mess
out of everything.
:51:12
How did you--
How did you, um--
:51:14
What do you feel about
the people that, um,
:51:17
went and burned their draft cards
and went into Canada?
:51:20
We don't agree with them.
I think these people were legally wrong.
:51:23
I think sometimes they were cowards.
:51:26
If they wanted to leave
and go to Canada, that's okay.
:51:30
But they can"t come back, though,
because they have disagreed.
:51:33
They say, "We don"t like your country,
we don"t like your people. "
:51:36
They're saying that
to you and me.
:51:38
"I don't like you, so I'm leaving.''
:51:40
Well, fine, that's okay. There's
no reason to hate a guy for that.
:51:44
'Cause that's also his right,
but he can't come back.
:51:48
Instead of helping and aiding
the Vietnamese people,
:51:52
I saw that we were party to their
deliberate and systematic destruction.
:51:57
The Vietnamese were considered,
less than humans, inferiors.