"Hagel was a 21-year-old Army sergeant when he was hit in the chest with shrapnel, his face burned from a mine blast, his eardrums blown out. After a gunfight with Viet Cong troops, he recalls, he and other soldiers who were in "pretty bad shape" waited for a medevac helicopter.
"My brother was with me as well. They dusted us off to a field hospital. … It has been seared into my mind," he said.
"We're products of our environments. We're products of our experiences. Certainly that experience in war in Vietnam in 1968 … the violence, the horrors, the suffering that I saw, yes, it conditioned me."
"But," Hagel added after a brief pause, "I also recognize the realities of the world that we live in. The instrument of our military is required, unfortunately, and history is rather replete on that point. Maybe someday they will not be required, but they are…"
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