Hearts and Minds (1974)

Randy Floyd: Self

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• Former Capt. Randy Floyd : I'm from Denton, Oklahoma, which is about 90 miles south of here. And I lived around several places: Missouri and Chicago, Detroit and Germany. By the time I got out of high school, I was very conservative. We have, back in high school, we bought, the high school had bought a, excuse me, a John Birch package on Communism. So, we studied Communism via the John Birch Society. With the big red map with the flowing out of disease and so forth. And learned how Karl Marx was a very cruel man and used to make his family suffer and so forth. So, when I got out of high school, I thought, basically, that Teddy Roosevelt is what this country needed and that FDR had kinda sold us down the drain to the Commies.

• Former Capt. Randy Floyd : [final lines]  We've all tried very hard to escape what we have learned in Vietnam. To not come to the logical conclusion of what's happened there. You know, the military does the same thing. You know, they don't realize, is that people fighting for their own freedom are not gonna be stopped by just changing your tactics, you know, adding a little more sophisticated technology over here, improving the tactics we used last time and not making quite the same mistakes. You know, I think history operates a little different than that. I think that those kind of forces are not gonna be stopped. I think Americans have worked extremely hard not to see the criminality that their officials and their policy makers have exhibited.