I can attest: there are still such men right now. I was fortunate to see it in Our Own Band of Brothers: 1/506 Infantry. A speech not delivered by a King, but a tough old NCO. The words were rougher and the speech was shorter, but the effect was the same. I know that right now. Right Now, a man is giving that speech to his soldiers on a freezing hilltop in Afghanistan with different words in a strange place with the same spirit and the same effect. America has kings, but they don't wear a crown; they wear bars and stripes, body armor and night vision goggles. Any American fighting tonight is brother to King Henry and his.

To Gray: Yes, indeed.
In my humble view the proliferation of Vietnam wanna-be heroes that sprung up after the war was over was testament to Shakespeare's phrase "Shall think themselves accursed they were not here".

And so say we all, Gray.

"... the proliferation of Vietnam wanna-be heroes that sprung up after the war was over was testament to Shakespeare's phrase "Shall think themselves accursed they were not here"".

...or maybe they feel the sting of the words of the trusting dead who were betrayed by a promise unkept by a people who swore to defend them:

"Just days before his execution at the hands of the Khmer Rouge, Cambodian statesman Sirak Mitak penned a final note to the U.S. ambassador refusing his offer of evacuation.

"I cannot, alas, leave in such a cowardly fashion. As for you and in particular for your great country, I never believed for a moment that you would have this sentiment of abandoning a people which has chosen liberty....You leave and my wish is that you and your country will find happiness under the sky.

"But mark it well that, if I shall die here on the spot and in my country that I love, it is too bad because we all are born and must die one day. I have only committed this mistake in believing in you, the Americans."

~Sirak Mitak

And sadly, more Siraks have said this to us, since.