A Quote by Oliver North
I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century.
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Anyone that makes me a quarter of a billion dollars, I like.
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I was arrested 1965. I had come back from the merchant marines, got into conversations about the war. I had never heard of Vietnam until I was in the merchant marines in constitution square in Athens, and I picked up the New York Herald or the International Herald Tribune and there was my first introduction of the word Vietnam.
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Combat is my profession and fighting was a great way to maintain a combat mindset while preparing to lead Marines in war.
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