The Vietnam War was handled poorly by the U.S. government, and the actions of soldiers were often mischaracterized as being intentionally cruel to civilians.

“I think we screwed up Vietnam royally. I think there are a lot of things we could have done to make it better. I don't think we as soldiers, I don't think we went over and did the kinds of things that most people thought we were doing.”

General Maxwell Taylor intentionally sabotaged President Kennedy's withdrawal plan for Vietnam by implementing secret military operations behind the administration's back.

“what he does for the next six weeks of Kennedy's life is to gut the withdrawal plan and at the same time stand up op plan 34A secretly both of those things he did behind mcer and Kennedy's back for those last six weeks of his life”

The United States government knowingly deceived the public regarding the actual progress and feasibility of winning the Vietnam War.

“The whole point of the Pentagon Papers which Daniel Ellsberg released and almost went to prison for was that he discovered despite having been an early advocate of the Vietnam war, or despite having been somebody who helped planned it inside the RAND Corporation, he came to realize that the United S”

He believes the United States' military involvement in the Vietnam War was a righteous and necessary effort to combat the atrocities and enslavement perpetrated by communism.

“I believed in the war. I'm very anti-communist and uh anyway I kept thinking reading the newspaper so many GIs have been killed and all that stuff and what I'm thinking I'm ready to die you know if I have to you know not I'm not eager but I'm ready and you know the least I can do is do my part”

Felix Rodriguez views his work in Vietnam as a major professional accomplishment involving successful counter-insurgency operations.

“I feel the I think I know I know I I contributed a hell of a lot more in Vietnam I have much more fulfillment what happened Vietnam than in Bolivia”

The Hmong soldiers who fought alongside American forces in the secret war in Laos were true patriots who fought for a country they had never seen based on promises of freedom.

“So you have to realize that for a lot of these M veterans who were part of the SGU, the special guerilla unit, they're true patriots. They fought for a country that they never stepped foot in before.”