I don't know how many I killed. I wasn't thinking. I wasn't counting. I was just shooting.

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Source, in full

Response to a reporter's question on 19 November 1968, as Johnson and four other Vietnam veterans were awarded the Medal of Honor at the White House. As quoted by Allen Mikaelian, Medal of Honor: Profiles of America's Military Heroes From the Civil War to the Present (2002), New York: Hyperion, first edition hardcover, p. 243

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