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It just fell together as i went along. I think one thing that struck me very dramatically was my decision to leave vietnam and to see how seductive war is. And i knew i didnt want to be someone who went from one war to the next and be kind of a war groupie, because i couldnt make a life. I wrote once that i wanted roots that went down to the source of water. And at the time, when i was in vietnam, i wasnt sure what that would have meant, and i was too young to be thinking about that, but when i went back to vietnam in 1989, it was the first time and i traveled with a small group from hanoi all...

Almost every single one of them saluted back. It was an incredibly moving experience, and you always have to wonder when youre talking about faces and people that you remember how it impacted the lives of those young men. I guess, among many other things, ive always wondered were they able to rebuild their lives and to have good families and decent jobs and to really have a decent life. I want to interrupt then and tell an anecdote. Im going to take one second here. I was inside the pentagon working on the morning of 9 11, and as we came to understand the people who perished inside the pentago...

Covering battlefields, to bringing the stories of american troops fighting in faraway places into our living rooms, into the front page of our newspapers. If nothing else, that era was such a turn in journalism that i probably dont have to explain to anybody in this room. And i thought that if were not all totally familiar with these womens backgrounds, we would just start by going down the line and have all of you briefly tell us how you came to be in vietnam. Its a far away place a long time ago. Lets just go down the line for a few minutes here. How did you get there . I got there it seems ...

Im very proud of the post9 11 g. I. Bill. I wrote this bill. I actually wrote it before i went into the senate. I introduced it before i went into office. And we developed a leadership prototype in terms of the senate as far as how you can work across the aisle to solve the problem. This was not an easy list. Lift. The Bush Administration oppose this g. I. Bill. They thought it was going to cause people to leave the american military. The exact opposite occurred. And in 16 months, working with democrats and republicans together, we cast the greatest g. I. Bill in history, and now more than 11 ...

Television mini series and best watch in the countrys history at the time. And he came back to tennessee in the early 80s, about the time i was governor. We were very good friends the last 12 years of his life. And ill never forget a threeweek cargo freighter trip i took with him in 1987. I was writing a book. He invited me to go with him. He always rode on cargo freighters because he was in the coast guard. He learned to ride there so he could isolate himself that way and ride. But he was a wonderful man. I was one of many speakers at miss funeral in memphis when he died in 1992. Senator alex...