:07:02
to stay alive those many years.
:07:05
That one thing was faith.
:07:08
Faith in my family,
my God and my country.
:07:14
I remembered high school.
I remembered playing sports there.
:07:19
And I can remember
my coach saying--
:07:21
""When the going gets tough,
the tough get going,
:07:25
because winners never quit
and quitters never win. "
:07:28
Why did I go to Vietnam?
:07:31
I will have to go back to 1 965,
when I was 22 years old.
:07:36
At that time, communism was once again
trying to muscle its way...
:07:40
into a free country.
:07:46
that would assert that there's
a majority of people in that country...
:07:49
that want to be communist.
:07:52
[Man]
Why do they need us then?
:07:54
Because they were subjected to, uh,
:07:58
military attack from outside.
:08:00
Uh, the, uh--
:08:04
Are you really asking me
this goddamn silly question?
:08:08
You really want me to go into this?
- Yes.
:08:11
I mean--I mean, you know,
we really got to go back to--
:08:14
You just want me to go back
to the origins of this thing then.
:08:17
All right, I'll do it, but this is
pretty pedestrian stuff, I must say,
:08:22
at this late stage of the game.
:08:24
Honestly it is.
:08:26
I'll do it. All right.
:08:28
- There"s disagreement about the origins.
- No, there's not.
:08:31
No, there's not.
There's no doubt.
:08:33
All right, I'll answer your question,
you can throw away that tape.
:08:37
I didn't expect to have to go back
to this kind of sophomoric stuff,
:08:41
but I'll do it.
:08:44
The problem, uh, began, uh,
:08:50
in its present phase,
after the Sputnik,
:08:53
the launch of the Sputnik
in 1 957, October.
:08:58
This opened a phase
of not well-coordinated,