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They said I was screaming quite loud. I threatened never to fly again. I didn't want to be a part of that. It wasn't war.
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In a 2004 interview with US News & World Report.

 

Hugh Thompson

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Our young people who go off to war and who join the service, we need to honor them because they're willing to risk their lives to protect us, to defend us, so we can have this way of life. And the agreement that they make with us is that we never send them into harm's way unless it is absolutely necessary. I think most Americans — I just saw the latest poll today — 54% now believe that invading Iraq wasn't the wisest thing to do — it wasn't certainly in self-defense. You weren't threatened; I wasn't being threatened, and that's the only time, because ultimately if it was your child…would you give up your child to secure Fallujah?

 

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In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
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