General William C. Westmoreland

1914 - 2005


``Well the Oriental, doesn't put the same high price on life, as does the Westerner. Life is plentiful, life is cheap in the Orient. And ah, ... as the, ... ah, philosophy of the Orient, ah, expresses it, ah, life is, ah, ... not important'' (General Westmoreland, as quoted in the 1974 documentary film Hearts and Minds)


Mourning (Image from graveyard in Vietnam, as shown in Hearts and Minds)