Memorial Day, 2009: How Do You Ask a Man to Be the Last Man to Die for a Mistake?

Watch C-SPAN's Soldiers' Stories, coverage of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. One of those testifying, Col. Andrew Bacevich (Ret.) eloquently recalled how John Kerry, then a youthful, highly decorated military veteran, asked a famous question: How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? Listen to Kerry's poignant, passionate anti-war speech from 1971 before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the committee he now chairs.