To the Japanese, only dogs were lower than soldiers who would surrender. We buried 500 Americans in blankets at one place along that road.

His was a landscape of amiable codgers, nurturing moms, adorable dogs, callow soldiers with hearts of gold-grown-up Boy Scouts all.

They are Americans that have the desire to see that our fallen soldiers are properly honored.

Eight days and eight nights of no food. No sleep. Just drag one foot in front of the other. We buried hundreds of men along the road to (Camp) O'Donnell.

We are like civilian soldiers.

The war in Iraq is immoral, illegal and cruel. Overwhelmingly, Americans, soldiers and Iraqis want American soldiers out of Iraq.