Thank you very much, Senator Fulbright, Senator Javits, Senator Symington, Senator Pell. 非常感谢您，富布赖特参议员、贾维茨参议员、赛明顿参议员、佩尔参议员。
I would like to say for the record that -- and also for the men behind me who are also wearing the uniform and their medals -- that my sitting up here is really symbolic. I'm not here as John Kerry. I'm here as one member of a group of 1000, which is a small representation of a very much larger group of veterans in this country. And were it possible for all of them to sit at this table, they would be here and have the same kind of testimony. 我想郑重声明——也是为了我身后那些同样身着军装、佩戴勋章的战友们——我坐在这里确实具有象征意义。我不是作为约翰·克里站在这里。我是作为一千人团体中的一员，这只是这个国家庞大退伍军人团体的一小部分代表。如果所有退伍军人都能坐在这张桌子旁，他们都会在这里，讲述同样的证词。
I would simply like to speak in very general terms. I apologize if my statement is general because I received notification yesterday you would hear me, and I'm afraid, because of the injunction, I was up most of the night and haven't had a great deal of chance to prepare. 我只想非常笼统地谈谈。如果我的陈述比较笼统，我深表歉意，因为我昨天才收到通知说你们要听取我的证词，而且由于法院禁令，我几乎整晚未眠，没有太多准备的机会。
I would like to talk representing all those veterans and say that several months ago in Detroit we had an investigation at which over 150 honorably discharged, and many very highly decorated, veterans testified to war crimes committed in Southeast Asia. 我想代表所有那些退伍军人谈谈，几个月前我们在底特律进行了一项调查，超过150名光荣退伍、其中许多人获得过高等级勋章的退伍军人作证，揭露了在东南亚犯下的战争罪行。
These were not isolated incidents but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command. It's impossible to describe to you exactly what did happen in Detroit -- the emotions in the room and the feelings of the men who were reliving their experiences in Vietnam. But they did. They relived the absolute horror of what this country, in a sense, made them do. 这些不是孤立事件，而是日复一日犯下的罪行，各级指挥官完全知情。我无法向你们准确描述底特律发生的一切——房间里的情绪，那些重温越南经历的人们的感受。但他们做到了。他们重温了这个国家在某种意义上让他们犯下的绝对恐怖。
They told the stories of times that they had personally raped, cut off ears, cut off heads, taped wires from portable telephones to human genitals and turned up the power, cut off limbs, blown up bodies, randomly shot at civilians, razed villages in the fashion reminiscent of Genghis Khan, shot cattle and dogs for fun, poisoned food stocks, and generally ravaged the countryside of South Vietnam in addition to the normal ravage of war and the normal and very particular ravaging which is done by the applied bombing power of this country. 他们讲述了他们亲自强奸、割掉耳朵、割掉头颅、将便携式电话的电线绑在人的生殖器上并接通电源、切断四肢、炸毁尸体、随意向平民开枪、以成吉思汗式的方式摧毁村庄、为取乐射杀牛狗、毒化粮食储备，以及在战争正常破坏之外，还因这个国家的轰炸力量而对南越乡村造成普遍破坏的故事。
We call this investigation the "Winter Soldier Investigation." The term Winter Soldier is a play on words of Thomas Paine's in 1776 when he spoke of the Sunshine Patriot and summertime soldiers who deserted at Valley Forge because the going was rough. 我们称这项调查为"冬日战士调查"。"冬日战士"这个词源自1776年托马斯·潘恩的话，他谈到了在福吉谷因形势艰难而逃跑的"阳光爱国者"和"夏日士兵"。
And we who have come here to Washington have come here because we feel we have to be winter soldiers now. We could come back to this country; and we could be quiet; we could hold our silence; we could not tell what went on in Vietnam. But we feel because of what threatens this country, the fact that the crimes threaten it, not reds, not redcoats but the crimes which we're committing are what threaten it; and we have to speak out. 我们来到华盛顿，是因为我们觉得现在必须成为冬日战士。我们本可以回到这个国家；我们可以保持沉默；我们可以不谈论越南发生的一切。但我们感到，因为威胁这个国家的不是红色分子，不是红衫军，而是我们正在犯下的罪行，这些罪行才是真正的威胁；所以我们必须站出来说话。
I would like to talk to you a little bit about what the result is of the feelings these men carry with them after coming back from Vietnam. The country doesn't know it yet but it's created a monster, a monster in the form of millions of men who have been taught to deal and to trade in violence, and who are given the chance to die for the biggest nothing in history; men who have returned with a sense of anger and a sense of betrayal which no one has yet grasped. 我想稍微谈谈这些人从越南回来后心中的感受所带来的后果。这个国家还不知道，但它已经创造了一个怪物，一个由数百万被教导使用暴力、有机会为历史上最大的虚无而死的人组成的怪物；这些人带着愤怒和背叛的感觉回来，这种感觉没有人真正理解。
As a veteran, and one who feels this anger, I'd like to talk about it. We're angry because we feel we have been used in the worst fashion by the Administration of this country. In 1970 at West Point, Vice President Agnew said: "Some glamorize the criminal misfits of society while our best men die in Asian rice paddies to preserve the freedoms which those misfits abuse." 作为一名退伍军人，一个感受到这种愤怒的人，我想谈谈这一点。我们愤怒是因为我们感到自己被这个国家的政府以最恶劣的方式利用了。1970年在西点军校，副总统阿格纽说："有些人美化社会上的犯罪无赖，而我们最优秀的人却在亚洲的稻田里牺牲，以维护那些无赖所滥用的自由。"
And this was used as a rallying point for our effort in Vietnam. 这句话被用作我们在越南努力的集结号。
But for us, his boys in Asia whom the country was supposed to support, his statement is a terrible distortion from which we can only draw a very deep sense of revulsion; and hence the anger of some of the men who are here in Washington today. 但对我们来说——他在亚洲的孩子们，这个国家本应支持的人——他的话是一种可怕的歪曲，我们只能从中感受到深深的反感；因此今天在华盛顿的一些人感到愤怒。
It's a distortion because we in no way considered ourselves the best men of this country; because those he calls misfits were standing up for us in a way that nobody else in this country dared to; because so many who have died would have returned to this country to join the misfits in their efforts to ask for an immediate withdrawal from South Vietnam. 这是一种歪曲，因为我们绝不认为自己是这个国家最优秀的人；因为他所谓的无赖们以这个国家其他人不敢的方式为我们挺身而出；因为那么多已经牺牲的人本可以回到这个国家，加入无赖们的行列，要求立即从南越撤军。
Because so many of those best men have returned as quadriplegics and amputees, and they lie forgotten in Veterans Administration hospitals in this country which fly the flag which so many have chosen as their own personal symbol. 因为那么多所谓的最优秀的人回来时成了四肢瘫痪者和截肢者，他们被遗忘在这个国家的退伍军人管理局医院里，这些医院飘扬着那么多人选择作为自己个人象征的旗帜。
And we cannot consider ourselves America's best men when we were ashamed of and hated what we were called to do in Southeast Asia. In our opinion, and from our experience, there is nothing in South Vietnam, nothing which could happen that realistically threatens the United States of America. 当我们对在东南亚被要求做的事情感到羞愧和憎恨时，我们无法认为自己是美国最优秀的人。在我们看来，根据我们的经验，南越没有任何东西，没有任何可能发生的事情会对美利坚合众国构成现实威胁。
And to attempt to justify the loss of one American life in Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos by linking such loss to the preservation of freedom, which those misfits supposedly abuse, is to us the height of criminal hypocrisy, and it's that kind of hypocrisy which we feel has torn this country apart. 试图通过将在越南、柬埔寨或老挝失去的美国生命与维护那些无赖所谓滥用的自由联系起来来为这种损失辩护，在我们看来是极度的犯罪虚伪，正是这种虚伪让我们感到这个国家已经四分五裂。
We are probably much more angry than that and I don't want to go into the foreign policy aspects because I'm outclassed here. I know that all of you have talked about every possible alternative to getting out of Vietnam. We understand that. We know that you've considered the seriousness of the aspects to the utmost level and I'm not going to try and deal on that. 我们可能比这更加愤怒，我不想深入讨论外交政策方面的问题，因为在这方面我比不上各位。我知道你们所有人都讨论过从越南撤军的各种可能替代方案。我们理解这一点。我们知道你们已经尽最大努力考虑了各个方面的严重性，我不想试图在这方面展开讨论。
But I want to relate to you the feeling which many of the men who've returned to this country express because we are probably angriest about all that we were told about Vietnam and about the mystical war against communism. 但我想向你们传达许多回到这个国家的人表达的感受，因为我们最愤怒的可能是我们被告知的关于越南和反对共产主义的神秘战争的一切。
We found that not only was it a civil war, an effort by a people who had for years been seeking their liberation from any colonial influence whatsoever, but also we found that the Vietnamese, whom we had enthusiastically molded after our own image, were hard put to take up the fight against the threat we were supposedly saving them from. 我们发现，这不仅是一场内战，是一个多年来一直寻求摆脱任何殖民影响的民族争取解放的努力，而且我们还发现，我们曾热情地按照自己的形象塑造的越南人，很难起来对抗我们所谓要拯救他们免受的威胁。
We found that most people didn't even know the difference between communism and democracy. They only wanted to work in rice paddies without helicopters strafing them and bombs with napalm burning their villages and tearing their country apart. 我们发现大多数人甚至不知道共产主义和民主之间的区别。他们只想在稻田里工作，没有直升机扫射他们，没有凝固汽油弹轰炸他们的村庄，没有战争撕裂他们的国家。
They wanted everything to do with the war, particularly with this foreign presence of the United States of America, to leave them alone in peace. 他们希望与战争有关的一切，特别是美利坚合众国的外国存在，让他们和平独处。
And they practiced the art of survival by siding with whichever military force was present at a particular time, be it Vietcong, North Vietnamese, or American. 他们通过支持当时在场的任何军事力量来生存，无论是越共、北越还是美国人。
We found also that all too often American men were dying in those rice paddies for want of support from their allies. We saw first hand how monies from American taxes was used for a corrupt dictatorial regime. 我们还发现，美国士兵常常因为缺乏盟友支持而死在那些稻田里。我们亲眼看到美国纳税人的钱被用于一个腐败的独裁政权。
We saw that many people in this country had a one-sided idea of who was kept free by our flag, as blacks provided the highest percentage of casualties. 我们看到这个国家的许多人对谁在我们的旗帜下获得自由有片面的看法，因为黑人伤亡比例最高。
We saw Vietnam ravaged equally by American bombs as well as by search and destroy missions, as well as by Vietcong terrorism; and yet we listened while this country tried to blame all of the havoc on the Vietcong. 我们看到越南同样被美国炸弹、搜索和摧毁任务以及越共恐怖主义所蹂躏；然而我们却听到这个国家试图将所有破坏归咎于越共。
We rationalized destroying villages in order to save them. We saw America lose her sense of morality as she accepted very coolly a My Lai and refused to give up the image of American soldiers that hand out chocolate bars and chewing gum. 我们为了拯救村庄而合理化地摧毁村庄。我们看到美国失去了道德感，因为她冷酷地接受了美莱村大屠杀，却拒绝放弃美国士兵分发巧克力棒和口香糖的形象。
We learned the meaning of "free-fire zones," "shoot anything that moves," and we watched while America placed a cheapness on the lives of Orientals. 我们学会了"自由射击区"、"向任何移动的东西开枪"的含义，我们看到美国对东方人的生命置之不理。
We watched the United States' falsification of body counts, in fact the glorification of body counts. We listened while month after month we were told the back of the enemy was about to break. 我们看到美国伪造尸体计数，实际上是美化尸体计数。我们日复一日地听到敌人即将崩溃的消息。
We fought using weapons against "oriental human beings," with quotation marks around that. We fought using weapons against those people which I do not believe this country would dream of using were we fighting in a European theater -- or let us say a non-third-world people theater. 我们用武器对抗"东方人类"，这里要加上引号。我们用的武器，如果是在欧洲战场——或者说非第三世界人民的战场——我相信这个国家做梦也不会想到使用。
And so we watched while men charged up hills because a general said "That hill has to be taken." And after losing one platoon or two platoons they marched away to leave the hill for the reoccupation of the North Vietnamese; because we watched pride allow the most unimportant of battles to be blown into extravaganzas; because we couldn't lose, and we couldn't retreat, and because it didn't matter how many American bodies were lost to prove that point. And so there were Hamburger Hills and Khe Sanhs and Hill 881's and Fire Base 6's, and so many others. 所以我们看到士兵们因为将军说"必须拿下那座山"而冲锋上山。在损失了一个或两个排之后，他们撤退离开，让北越重新占领那座山；因为我们看到骄傲让最不重要的战斗被夸大成盛大场面；因为我们不能输，也不能撤退，而且无论牺牲多少美国士兵来证明这一点都无所谓。因此有了汉堡山、溪生、881高地和6号火力基地等等。
And now we're told that the men who fought there must watch quietly while American lives are lost so that we can exercise the incredible arrogance of Vietnamizing the Vietnamese. 现在我们被告知，那些在那里战斗过的人必须安静地看着美国生命的损失，以便我们能够行使将越南越南化的令人难以置信的傲慢。
Each day to facilitate the process by which the United States washes her hands of Vietnam, someone has to give up his life so that United States doesn't have to admit something that the entire world already knows, so that we cannot say that we've made a mistake. Someone has to die so that President Nixon won't be the first American President to lose a war. 每一天，为了促进美国摆脱越南的进程，必须有人献出生命，这样美国就不必承认全世界都已经知道的事情，这样我们就不能说我们犯了错误。必须有人死去，这样尼克松总统就不会成为第一位输掉战争的美国总统。
And we are asking Americans to think about that because how do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? But we're trying to do that, and we're doing it with thousands of rationalizations, and if you read carefully the President's last speech to the people of this country, you can see that he says, and says clearly: "But the issue, gentlemen, the issue is communism, and the question is whether or not we will leave that country to the Communists or whether or not we will try to give it hope to be a free people." 我们要求美国人思考这一点，因为我们如何要求一个人成为越南战争中最后一个死去的人？我们如何要求一个人成为为一个错误而死的最后一个人？但我们正在尝试这样做，我们用数千个理由来合理化，如果你们仔细阅读总统最近对这个国家人民的讲话，你们可以看到他清楚地说："但是，先生们，问题是共产主义，问题是我们是否将那个国家留给共产党人，或者我们是否会努力让它有希望成为一个自由的民族。"
But the point is they're not a free people now -- under us. They're not a free people. And we cannot fight communism all over the world, and I think we should have learnt that lesson by now. 但关键是他们现在不是自由的民族——在我们统治下。他们不是自由的民族。我们不能在全世界对抗共产主义，我认为我们现在应该吸取这个教训。
But the problem of veterans goes beyond this personal problem, because you think about a poster in this country with a picture of Uncle Sam and the picture says "I want you." And a young man comes out of high school and says, "That's fine. I'm going to serve my country." And he goes to Vietnam and he shoots and he kills and he does his job or maybe he doesn't kill, maybe he just goes and he comes back. 但退伍军人的问题超出了这个个人问题，因为你们想想这个国家的一张海报，上面有山姆大叔的画像，上面写着"我需要你"。一个年轻人从高中毕业，说："很好。我要为我的国家服务。"他去了越南，开枪杀人，完成他的任务，或者也许他没有杀人，也许他只是去了然后回来。
When he gets back to this country he finds that he isn't really wanted, because the largest unemployment figure in the country -- it varies depending on who you get it from, the Veterans Administration 15 percent, various other sources 22 percent -- but the largest figure of unemployed in this country are veterans of this war. And of those veterans 33 percent of the unemployed are black. That means 1 out of every 10 of the nation's unemployed is a veteran of Vietnam. 当他回到这个国家时，他发现自己并不真正受欢迎，因为这个国家最大的失业群体——不同来源的数据不同，退伍军人管理局说是15%，其他各种来源说是22%——但这个国家最大的失业群体是这场战争的退伍军人。在这些退伍军人中，33%的失业者是黑人。这意味着全国每10个失业者中就有1个是越南战争的退伍军人。
The hospitals across the country won't or can't meet their demands. It's not a question of not trying. They haven't got the appropriations. A man recently died after he had a tracheotomy in California, not because of the operation but because there weren't enough personnel to clean the mucous out of his tube and he suffocated to death. 全国的医院无法满足他们的需求。不是不想，而是没有拨款。最近在加利福尼亚，一个人做了气管切开手术后死亡，不是因为手术，而是因为没有足够的人员清理他管子里的粘液，他窒息而死。
Another young man just died in a New York VA hospital the other day. A friend of mine was lying in a bed two beds away and tried to help him, but he couldn't. They rang a bell and there was no one there to service that man, and so he died of convulsions. 另一个年轻人前几天在纽约的一家退伍军人管理局医院去世了。我的一个朋友躺在两张床之外，试图帮助他，但无能为力。他们按了铃，但没有人来照顾那个人，所以他死于抽搐。
Fifty-seven percent -- I understand 57 percent of all those entering VA hospitals talk about suicide. Some 27 percent have tried, and they try because they come back to this country and they have to face what they did in Vietnam, and then they come back and find the indifference of a country that doesn't really care, that doesn't really care. 百分之五十七——我听说进入退伍军人管理局医院的人中有57%谈论自杀。大约27%的人尝试过，他们尝试是因为他们回到这个国家后不得不面对他们在越南所做的事情，然后他们回来发现一个根本不在乎、根本不在乎的国家的冷漠。
And suddenly we are faced with a very sickening situation in this country because there's no moral indignation, and if there is it comes from people who are almost exhausted by their past indignancies, and I know that many of them are sitting in front of me. The country seems to have lain down and accepted something as serious as Laos, just as we calmly shrugged off the loss of 700,000 lives in Pakistan, the so-called greatest disaster of all times. 突然，我们在这个国家面临一个非常令人作呕的局面，因为没有道德愤慨，如果有的话，也来自那些几乎被过去的愤慨耗尽的人，我知道他们中的许多人就坐在我面前。这个国家似乎已经躺下，接受了像老挝这样严重的事情，就像我们平静地对巴基斯坦70万人的死亡——所谓的有史以来最大的灾难——置之不理一样。
But we are here as veterans to say that we think we are in the midst of the greatest disaster of all times now because they are still dying over there, and not just Americans, Vietnamese, and we are rationalizing leaving that country so that those people can go on killing each other for years to come. 但我们作为退伍军人站在这里说，我们认为我们现在正处于有史以来最大的灾难之中，因为他们还在那边死去，不仅仅是美国人，还有越南人，我们正在合理化离开那个国家，让那些人在未来几年继续互相残杀。
Americans seem to have accepted the idea that the war is winding down, at least for Americans, and they have also allowed the bodies, which were once used by a President for statistics to prove that we were winning this war, to be used as evidence against a man who followed orders and who interpreted those orders no differently than hundreds of other men in South Vietnam. 美国人似乎已经接受了战争正在缓和的想法，至少对美国人来说是这样，他们也允许曾经被总统用作统计数据来证明我们正在赢得这场战争的尸体，被用作证据来反对一个遵守命令、对命令的解释与南越其他数百人没有不同的人。
We veterans can only look with amazement on the fact that this country has not been able to see that there's absolutely no difference between a ground troop and a helicopter crew. And yet, people have accepted a differentiation fed them by the Administration. No ground troops are in Laos, so it's alright to kill Laotians by remote control. 我们退伍军人只能惊讶地看到，这个国家未能看到地面部队和直升机机组人员之间绝对没有区别。然而，人们接受了政府灌输的这种区分。老挝没有地面部队，所以通过遥控杀死老挝人是可以的。
But believe me, the helicopter crews fill the same body bags and they wreak the same kind of damage on the Vietnamese and Laotian countryside as anyone else, and the President is talking about allowing that to go on for many years to come. And one can only ask if we will really be satisfied when the troops march in to Hanoi. 但相信我，直升机机组人员填满同样的尸袋，他们对越南和老挝乡村造成的破坏与任何人一样，总统正在谈论允许这种情况持续多年。人们只能问，当军队开进河内时，我们是否真的会满意。
We are asking here in Washington for some action, action from the Congress of the United States of America which has the power to raise and maintain armies and which by the Constitution also has the power to declare war. We've come here, not to the President, because we believe that this body can be responsive to the will of the people; and we believe that the will of the people says that we should be out of Vietnam now. 我们在华盛顿要求采取行动，要求美利坚合众国国会采取行动，国会有权组建和维持军队，根据宪法也有权宣战。我们来到这里，不是来找总统，因为我们相信这个机构能够响应人民的意愿；我们相信人民的意愿是我们现在应该离开越南。
We're here in Washington also to say that the problem of this war is not just a question of war and diplomacy. It's part and parcel of everything that we are trying as human beings to communicate to people in this country: the question of racism, which is rampant in the military; and so many other questions also: the use of weapons; the hypocrisy in our taking umbrage in the Geneva Conventions and using that as justification for continuation of this war. 我们在华盛顿还想说，这场战争的问题不仅仅是战争和外交问题。它是我们作为人类试图向这个国家人民传达的一切的一部分：军队中猖獗的种族主义问题；以及许多其他问题：武器的使用；我们对日内瓦公约感到不满，并以此作为继续这场战争的理由。
When we are more guilty than any other body of violations of those Geneva Conventions -- in the use of free-fire zones, harassment interdiction fire, search and destroy missions, the bombings, the torture of prisoners, the killing of prisoners -- accepted policy by many units in South Vietnam. That's what we're trying to say. It's part and parcel of everything. 而我们比任何其他机构都更违反日内瓦公约——在自由射击区的使用、骚扰性拦截火力、搜索和摧毁任务、轰炸、酷刑囚犯、杀害囚犯——这些在南越许多部队中都是公认的政策。这就是我们想说的。它是一切的一部分。
An American Indian friend of mine who lives on the Indian nation of Alcatraz put it to me very succinctly. He told me how as a boy on an Indian reservation he had watched television and he used to cheer the cowboys when they came in and shot the Indians. And then suddenly one day he stopped in Vietnam and he said, "My God, I'm doing to these people the very same thing that was done to my people," -- and he stopped. And that's what we're trying to say, that we think this thing has to end. 我的一个住在阿尔卡特拉斯印第安民族的美国印第安朋友非常简洁地向我表达了这一点。他告诉我，他小时候在印第安保留地看电视，过去常常为牛仔进来射杀印第安人而欢呼。然后突然有一天，他在越南停了下来，他说："天哪，我对这些人做的事情和对我的人民做的事情完全一样，"——然后他停了下来。这就是我们想说的，我们认为这件事必须结束。
We're also here to ask vehemently, Where are the leaders of our country? Where is the leadership? We're here to ask: Where are McNamara, Rostow, Bundy, Gilpatric, and so many others. Where are they now that we the men whom they sent off to war have returned? These are commanders who have deserted their troops and there is no more serious crime in the law of war. 我们还强烈要求：我们国家的领导人在哪里？领导在哪里？我们要求：麦克纳马拉、罗斯托、邦迪、吉尔帕特里克，以及其他许多人在哪里？当我们这些被他们派去打仗的人回来时，他们在哪里？这些指挥官抛弃了他们的部队，在战争法中没有比这更严重的罪行。
The Army says they never leave their wounded. The Marines say they never leave even their dead. These men have left all the casualties and retreated behind a pious shield of public rectitude. They've left the real stuff of their reputations, bleaching behind them in the sun in this country. 陆军说他们永远不会留下伤员。海军陆战队说他们永远不会留下死者。这些人留下了所有伤员，躲在虔诚的公众正直盾牌后面。他们留下了他们声誉的真正实质，在这个国家的阳光下褪色。
And finally, this Administration has done us the ultimate dishonor. They've attempted to disown us and the sacrifices we made for this country. In their blindness and fear, they have tried to deny that we are veterans or that we served in Nam. We do not need their testimony. Our own scars and stumps of limbs are witness enough for others; and for ourselves, we wish that a merciful God could wipe away our own memories of that service as easily as this Administration has wiped their memories of us. 最后，本届政府对我们做了最大的羞辱。他们试图否认我们以及我们为这个国家做出的牺牲。在他们的盲目和恐惧中，他们试图否认我们是退伍军人，否认我们在越南服役。我们不需要他们的证词。我们自己的伤疤和残缺的肢体足以向他人证明；对我们自己来说，我们希望仁慈的上帝能够像本届政府抹去对我们的记忆一样容易地抹去我们对那段服役的记忆。
But all that they have done and all that they can do by this denial is to make more clear than ever our own determination to undertake one last mission: to search out and destroy the last vestige of this barbaric war, to pacify our own hearts, to conquer the hate and fear that have driven this country these last 10 years and more. 但他们所做的一切以及他们通过这种否认所能做的一切，只会让我们更清楚地下定决心执行最后一项任务：寻找并摧毁这场野蛮战争的最后痕迹，安抚我们自己的心，征服过去十年来驱动这个国家的仇恨和恐惧。
And so, when 30 years from now our brothers go down the street without a leg, without an arm or a face, and small boys ask why, we will be able to say "Vietnam" and not mean a desert, not a filthy obscene memory but mean instead the place where America finally turned and where soldiers like us helped it in the turning. 所以，当30年后我们的兄弟拖着残缺的身体走在街上，小男孩问为什么时，我们可以说"越南"——不是指一片荒漠，不是一段肮脏的记忆，而是指美国最终转变方向的地方，指像我们这样的士兵帮助它转变的地方。
Thank you. 谢谢。