navy corpsman received a bronze star after starlight and left the navy in 1968. >> a lot of men died were wounded. we didn't get to do the job we could have done. >> oliver: in the early days, vietnam was the longest military engagement and the only conflict where we won all the byes but still lost the war. years after it was over, robert mcnamara, december of 1965 he told johnson america couldn't win the war militarily. it didn't stop vietnam to drag on for ten nor years. vietnam has to seen the broader context of the cold war. the people that fought in vietnam cloud shrouded mountains and rice paddies, this war was anything but cold. it's easy to point to errors in washington but for those that fought there, there is something more important. it's honoring the three million that served in southeast asia and more than 58,000 who didn't come home. theirs is a war story that deserves to be told. i'm oliver north, good night.

, not -- >> i want to play it for you. >> navy corpsman, god's great and the passion and decency of thecan people is expressed through the american people. on this memorial day as our nation honors it's unbroken line of honored heros, and i see many of them in the audience here today, our sense of patriotism is pretty song. >> the last one i will say he probably just made a mistake, memorial day and labor day. but to continually say corpsman, he said it three or four times, how am i to interpret that? help me out with that because i don't think he knew what a corpsman was. >> sean, you actually embarrassed me because i remember looking at the white house and director of policy for president clinton and i'm a navy guy and he was going to be on an aircraft carrier and i made the mistake of saying the cruiser america. i got to tell you, some of this is just staff work. he's got a lot to do. but the important point of what you ask is very well responded. president reagan began said it so well. probably one of our strongest commanders in chief, that the use of the military is also and always

navy corpsman received a bronze star after starlight and left the navy in 1968. >> a lot of men died were wounded. we didn't get to do the job we could have done. >> oliver: in the early days, vietnam was the longest military engagement and the only conflict where we won all the byes but still lost the war. years after it was over, robert mcnamara, december of 1965 he told johnson america couldn't win the war militarily. it didn't stop vietnam to drag on for ten nor years. vietnam has to seen the broader context of the cold war. the people that fought in vietnam cloud shrouded mountains and rice paddies, this war was anything but cold. it's easy to point to errors in washington but for those that fought there, there is something more important. it's honoring the three million that served in southeast asia and more than 58,000 who didn't come home. theirs is a war story that deserves to be told. i'm oliver north, good night. >>. >> gregg: this is a fox news alert. moving fast a terrify and getting stronger. that is beryl hours away from making landfall on the southeast coastline, part

been deployed -- 12-year veteran, been deployed seven times, i was a force scout marine and a navy corpsman i understand everything you're saying, i'm right there with you. thank you for showing me the way, because i failed out of seal school, but i graduated marine force school. i was right there with you, brother, fallujah and baghdad, sadr city from 2002 to 2009. >> guest: well, thank you for all your service. and, you know, failing out of seal school that's -- you know, just because i made it through seal school doesn't make me any better than anybody else. it was just different strokes for different folks, and there are definitely some outstanding people in all the other branches, even just regular grunts. i mean, there are some true fighters and warriors there, and, you know, i just respect the hell out of everyone wearing that uniform. >> host: this e-mail from john of san francisco: mr. kyle, have you read "jarhead" by anthony swaf ord? if so, what did you think of this book? >> guest: honestly, i haven't. most of the books -- well, i've read carlos halfcock's because, you know, i i

been deployed -- 12-year veteran, been deployed seven times, i was a force scout marine and a navy corpsman i understand everything you're saying, i'm right there with you. thank you for showing me the way, because i failed out of seal school, but i graduated marine force school. i was right there with you, brother, fallujah and baghdad, sadr city from 2002 to 2009. >> guest: well, thank you for all your service. and, you know, failing out of seal school that's -- you know, just because i made it through seal school doesn't make me any better than anybody else. it was just different strokes for different folks, and there are definitely some outstanding people in all the other branches, even just regular grunts. i mean, there are some true fighters and warriors there, and, you know, i just respect the hell out of everyone wearing that uniform. >> host: this e-mail from john of san francisco: mr. kyle, have you read "jarhead" by anthony swaf ord? if so, what did you think of this book? >> guest: honestly, i haven't. most of the books -- well, i've read carlos halfcock's because, you know, i i

he was an enlisted medical corpsman and now he's a retired navy commander and still treating patientso operator who you know well, official surgeon. not potheaded dropouts like they've been depicted in the press and you'll see them all gathered on memorial day recognized for what they really did, not the way they were depicted by hollywood and by the media. >> what do you think it will mean to folks who are vietnam veterans and the families of those who didn't make it to have this recognition on memorial day? from the defense secretary? >> i think it will be absolutely wonderful for those who remain with us today and their families, i think it's absolutely wonderful. >> ask you about your work at walter reed with the young men and women coming back now, what are you seeing? what could we as the american people be doing better to welcome you home? >> i think what's being done now is very well done by many people and i think our combatants coming home today feel very welcome. the injuries of war are all kind of specific to the war. we had our very bad injuries as you recall from the vie