Now I Have Shed My First Blood.

I'm Glad That It Didn't Take As Long To Get Shepard Off The Ground As It's Taken This Series. I'd Begun To Think The Congo Would Be Ahead Of Us In The Space Race Before Whispering Smith Ever Got On The Air.

I Was Scared Before Every Battle. That Old Instinct Of Self-preservation Is A Pretty Basic Thing, But While The Action Was Going On Some Part Of My Mind Shut Off And My Training And Discipline Took Over. I Did What I Had To Do.

I Never Liked Being Called The 'most Decorated' Soldier. There Were So Many Guys Who Should Have Gotten Medals And Never Did-- Guys Who Were Killed.

The True Meaning Of America, You Ask? It's In A Texas Rodeo, In A Policeman's Badge, In The Sound Of Laughing Children, In A Political Rally, In A Newspaper... In All These Things, And Many More, You'll Find America. In All These Things, You'll Find Freedom. And Freedom Is What America Means To The World. And To Me.

After The War, They Took Army Dogs And Rehabilitated Them For Civilian Life. But They Turned Soldiers Into Civilians Immediately, And Let Em Sink Or Swim.