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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.

Spread the gospel that the Marine Corps is a force that has changed. We're not in 1942 anymore.

I did not volunteer for the Waffen SS, but was, as were thousands of my year group, conscripted. I did not then know as a 17-year-old that it was a criminal unit. I thought it was an elite unit.

Everything was black in the harbor, but there were still some fires burning on the ships.

I went over to the Charlestown Navy Yard yesterday and saw some big men of war, one over 100 guns.

The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of 1968 who served as liaisons between the Marine Corps and the Brigade of Midshipmen later suffered nine Purple Hearts in Vietnam, and one man killed in action.

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

Back in the old Corp, we weren't training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam.

I had the first integrated Army band in World War II.

Destroyers did not have chaplains because they were too small.