Quotes about Vietnam War

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War. Votes: 8

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Votes: 8

I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. Votes: 8

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do Votes: 6

I got my head bashed in at a demonstration against the Vietnam War. Police were losing control because they were up against a world they really didn't understand. Votes: 6

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it. Votes: 6

We still seek no wider war. Votes: 4

We believe that peace is at hand. Votes: 4

I see light at the end of the tunnel. Votes: 4

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. Votes: 4

Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie. Votes: 4

It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause. Votes: 4

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place. Votes: 4

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies. Votes: 4

This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart. Votes: 4

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that. Votes: 4

You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam. Votes: 4

If the Americans do not want to support us anymore, let them go, get out! Let them forget their humanitarian promises! Votes: 4

We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves. Votes: 4

Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again. Votes: 4

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. Votes: 4

You have a row of dominoes set up; you knock over the first one, and what will happen to the last one is that it will go over very quickly. Votes: 4

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights. Votes: 4

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. Votes: 4

I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me. Votes: 4

The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere. Votes: 4

I'm not so sure that people consider homelessness to be as important as, say, the Vietnam War. One should never even try to equate them because, of course, they're tragedies on both sides of the coin. Votes: 4

The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. Votes: 4

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective - taking over the South by force - could not be achieved. Votes: 4

In 1968, America was a wounded nation. The wounds were moral ones; the Vietnam War and three summers of inner-city riots had inflicted them on the national soul, challenging Americans' belief that they were a uniquely noble and honorable people. Votes: 4

Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. If you made it into Canada, you were safe unless someone came and hauled you back. That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters. Votes: 4

During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. The result: Vietnam fell to the Communists, the Russians moved into Afghanistan, and American influence around the globe waned dramatically. Votes: 4

When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies. Votes: 4

One big, glaring difference I can think of between Iraq and Vietnam is the news coverage. During the Vietnam War era, you had TV coverage of the war saturating the airwaves every night, and that coverage wasn't put through a military filter at all. Votes: 4

There was a time when liberalism was identified with anti-Communism. But the Vietnam War led liberals into the arms of the Left, which had been morally confused about Communism since its inception and had become essentially pacifist following the carnage of World War I. Votes: 4

We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. Votes: 4

America has made no reparation to the Vietnamese, nothing. We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help-because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won. Votes: 4

Once upon a time our traditional goal in war and can anyone doubt that we are at war? - was victory. Once upon a time we were proud of our strength, our military power. Now we seem ashamed of it. Once upon a time the rest of the world looked to us for leadership. Now they look to us for a quick handout and a fence-straddling international posture. Votes: 4

Helvetica is the font of the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

The only important lesson from the Vietnam War is this: Democrats lose wars. Votes: 3

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it. Votes: 3

The Quiet American is anti the people who took them into the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong. (To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War) Votes: 3

In F-111, I question the collusion between the Vietnam War, income taxes, consumerism, and advertising. Votes: 3

Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. Votes: 3

Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch. Votes: 3

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. Votes: 3

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars. Votes: 3

I left the Democratic Party basically on issues of national security during the end of the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war. Votes: 3

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War." Votes: 3

Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

I didn't like anti-Vietnam War art. I didn't like feminist art. I thought it was heavy-handed and stupid - as art. Votes: 3

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure. Votes: 3

President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone. Votes: 3

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money." (On Vietnam War) Votes: 3

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either. Votes: 3

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them. Votes: 3

So now it turns out that Thomas Jefferson was having sex with Sally Hemings while serving in the 101st Airborne during the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

Realistically speaking, Ayn Rand should not have opposed the antidraft movement and supported the Vietnam War effort - in effect, she supported military conscription. Votes: 3

In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs. Votes: 3

My first professional acting job was in 'Hair' during the Vietnam War. So I think I've always been drawn to projects with a social conscience. Votes: 3

Social justice has always been a part of my inspiration. For example, when the Vietnam War was going on, I wrote a song about that. Votes: 3

Matterhorn is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again. Votes: 3

By the year 2025, 500 million people will die of smoking. Now, that's a Vietnam War every day for 27 years. That's the Titanic sinking every 27 minutes for 27 years. Votes: 3

In revealing the workings of government that led to the Vietnam War, the newspapers nobly did precisely that which the Founders hoped and trusted they would do. Votes: 3

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism. Votes: 3

The Philippines was with the U.S. in the Second World War, in the Korean War, in the Vietnam War, and now in the war against terrorism. Votes: 3

In 2003, Congress authorized the construction of a visitor center for the Vietnam Memorial to help provide information and educate the public about the memorial and the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

[democrats] hated Richard Nixon, and no wonder. It was Nixon who sent Alger Hiss to jail, and Nixon who waged the Vietnam War after the Democrats gave up, Votes: 3

I know this: that in your own hearts and your own souls, you are as much responsible for the Vietnam War as I am for killing these people. Votes: 3

Phil Hicks was the guy that was in the ROTC, that was going to go into the Vietnam War and thought that was the responsibility of the citizen. Votes: 3

There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply. Votes: 3

The whole thing about whether you smoke marijuana or not is so ridiculous. That and whether you protested the Vietnam War. Give me a break. Especially the marijuana thing. Votes: 3

In America, it is reported by some sources that there were more domestic violence related murders in the home than the 58,000 Americans soldiers killed in the entire Vietnam War Votes: 3

In all, the future secretary of defense and wartime vice president[, Dick Cheney,] would receive five deferments during the Vietnam War, protecting him from service during his draft-eligible years. Votes: 3

The boys that were running away from America because they didn't want to get involved with the Vietnam War had come to me. They would tell me how they felt. Votes: 3

Many of the architects of the Vietnam War became near pariahs as they spent the remainder of their lives in the futile quest to explain away their decisions at the time. Votes: 3

People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church. Votes: 3

The Vietnam War and the Iraq war, in different ways, both made me feel like I could not not address them. I'm very doubtful about the usefulness of poetry to do that. Votes: 3

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived. Votes: 3

'Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed. Votes: 3

Those days [of the Vietnam War] you couldn't get on a bus going to the South without expecting a riot over something or the other. All of that has disappeared thanks to Lyndon Johnson. Votes: 3

Dare to Discipline' was published in 1970 in the midst of the Vietnam War and a culture of rebellion. The book was written in that context, but the principles of child rearing have not changed. Votes: 3

Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service. Votes: 3

During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not. Votes: 3

The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue to get a deferment, you had to go to graduate school. Votes: 3

I was in a community where we were out demonstrating. We were holding vigils against the Vietnam War, in - like, starting in around '67, I think,before it really exploded as a big movement. Votes: 3

On the Vietnam War: I've lived under situations where every decent man declared war first and I've lived under situations where you don't declare war. We've been flexible enough to kill people without declaring war. Votes: 3

Malcolm X was the first prominent American to attack and to criticize the U.S. role in Southeast Asia, and he came out four-square against the Vietnam War in 1964, long before the vast majority of Americans did. Votes: 3

The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in the USA and that fourth one spent here in Vietnam really flipped my life around. Votes: 3

Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had something that the current generation doesnt have. And that is a sense of efficacy. Votes: 3

The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were going to perhaps be forced to go overseas and fight in an immoral war. Votes: 3

[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo - against the old line and the new old line. It's the same exact thing today. Votes: 3

I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify. Votes: 3

America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

Philip Jones Griffith documented the Vietnam War, and through his images that were published in Time Life Magazine, it showed me the horrors of war and at that time, I wanted to be a war photographer, based off his work. Votes: 3

When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war. Votes: 3

I was very much a child of the 1960s. I protested the Vietnam War and grew up in a fairly politicized home. My father was like a cross between William Kunstler and Zorba the Greek. I grew up among left-wing lawyers. Votes: 3

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. Votes: 3

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. Votes: 3

We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war. Votes: 3

President Bush's campaign is now attacking John Kerry for throwing away some of his medals to protest the Vietnam War. Bush did not have any medals to throw away, but in his defense he did have all his services records thrown out. Votes: 3

The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War." Votes: 3

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist. Votes: 3

I used to say, 'Mad' takes on both sides.' We even used to rake the hippies over the coals. They were protesting the Vietnam War, but we took aspects of their culture and had fun with it. 'Mad' was wide open. Votes: 3

Hippies started the ecology movement. They combated racism. They liberated sexual stereotypes, encouraged change, individual pride, and self-confidence. They questioned robot materialism. In four years they managed to stop the Vietnam War. They got marijuana decriminalized in fourteen states during the Carter Administration. Votes: 3

That's where we all kind of were in the mid-1960s. Students for a Democratic Society grew from a small group of socialists at the university of Michigan into a national organization, and in many ways, its growth was driven by the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

Power tends to corrupt. But the power in Washington resides in Congress, if it wants to use it. It can do anything-it can stop the Vietnam War. It can make its will felt, if it can ever get its act together to do anything. Votes: 3

The [Vietnam War Memorial] Wall became a magnet for citizens of every generation, class, race, and relationship to the war perhaps because it is the only great public monument that allows the anesthetized holes in the heart to fill with a truly national grief. Votes: 3

I couldn't be happier that President Bush has stood up for having served in the National Guard, because I can finally put an end to all those who questioned my motives for enlisting in the Army Reserve at the height of the Vietnam War. Votes: 3

We jumped into the protest of Vietnam before the Black Panther Party ever started, before the Black Panther Party was even thought of. In fact, it was late 1965 and 1966 that the anti-Vietnam War, anti-draft to the Vietnam War protest started at University of California, Berkeley. Votes: 3

Of all recent presidents, Clinton was expected to behave the most sensibly in economic matters. He understood how the economy works. But because he had used various dodges to stay out of the Vietnam War, he came to office ill at ease with the military. Votes: 3

So much of my work involved the Vietnam War that it would have been obscene to show it in a gallery. But now, it's different; it's important to remember and to enable the young to discover what to some of us is still so present. Votes: 3

I'm a child of the '60s, I came of age then. I went to a couple of demonstrations, and then in the late '60s when the Vietnam anti-war movement grew as the Vietnam War was heating up, I became very involved in that. Votes: 3

I was a surf bum wannabe. I left home at age 17 and moved to Southern California to try to take up surfing as a vocation, but this was in 1964, and there was this nasty little thing called the Vietnam War. As a result, I got drafted. Votes: 3

I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was. Votes: 3

In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. In the '70s, there were a lot of stories that dealt with the Vietnam War. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in. Votes: 3

When I was a kid, we watched the Vietnam War on the six o'clock news, and it was desensitizing. You felt you were watching a war film; meanwhile you were really watching these guys getting blown to bits. Parents need to protect their kids from watching that stuff. Votes: 3

When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote 1,700 pages of sheer psychotherapy drivel. It was first person, and there would be pages about wet socks and cold feet. Votes: 3

I fought as an infantry Marine on one of the Vietnam War's harshest battlefields. After leaving the Marine Corps, I studied law and found a fulfilling career as an author and journalist. But again and again, I came back to the personal fulfillment that can only come from public service. Votes: 3

We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Votes: 2

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it. Votes: 2

Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results. Votes: 2

Suicidal violence is not the exclusive property of the Muslim world. Suicide bombings were a tactic of nationalist struggles in 19th-century Europe and Russia, the far east during the second world war and the Vietnam war, and in modern Sri Lanka. Votes: 2

One of the lessons learned during the Vietnam War was that the depiction of wounded soldiers, of coffins stacked higher than their living guards, had a negative effect on the viewing public. The military in Iraq specifically banned the photographing of wounded soldiers and coffins, thus sanitizing this terrible and bloody conflict. Votes: 2

Even soldiers from the Vietnam War had said that when they were fighting in that war, the landmine was just one of any number of weapons to use in the fighting. It wasn't until they began to think about the aftermath and the legacy of landmines that they recognized the long-term, indiscriminate impact of the weapon. Votes: 2

In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know? Votes: 2

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that. Votes: 2

Iraq was a war of choice, like Vietnam. Votes: 0

The Vietnam war was fought over portion size. Votes: 0

Hating war in Vietnam in 1965 was minority position. Votes: 0

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake. Votes: 0

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed. Votes: 0

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war. Votes: 0

We ended the war in Vietnam, and brought the troops home. Votes: 0

It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead. Votes: 0

If John McCain were really a war hero he would've won Vietnam. Votes: 0

Uncle fought in Vietnam and then he fought a war all by himself. Votes: 0

Sure Vietnam is a dirty war. I've never heard of a clean one. Votes: 0

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart. Votes: 0

World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing. Votes: 0

It's Kennedy's war, Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson got all the flak, but it's Kennedy's war. Votes: 0

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along. Votes: 0

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war. Votes: 0

From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism. Votes: 0

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America. Votes: 0

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war. Votes: 0

There is one hell of a difference between fighting in the ring and going to war in Vietnam. Votes: 0

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. Votes: 0

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war. Votes: 0

Kids flew B-17s in daylight bombing raids over Germany in World War II. Kids fought in Korea and Vietnam. Votes: 0

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam. Votes: 0

Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words. Votes: 0

I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there. Votes: 0

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam. Votes: 0

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam. Votes: 0

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind. Votes: 0

Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind Votes: 0

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone. Votes: 0

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress? Votes: 0

How, then, can the feds justify favoring sons of Hispanics over sons of white Americans who fought in World War II or Vietnam? Votes: 0

You go back and look at things like Civil War, World War II, Vietnam, a lot of people dying in state-sponsored arm conflict Votes: 0

The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together in the Second World War. Votes: 0

We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world. Votes: 0

President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one. Votes: 0

You have this response of angry young people, with a war going on in Vietnam, a poverty program that was insufficient, and police brutality. Votes: 0

Lyndon Johnson may have escalated the war, but when I was drafted and shipped off to Vietnam, the signature on my orders was Nixon's. Votes: 0

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war. Votes: 0

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. Votes: 0

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. Votes: 0

The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam. Votes: 0

For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage. Votes: 0

My parents demonstrated against the Vietnam war, they were into the civil rights movement, the feminist movement, they started the first vegetarian restaurant in Pittsburgh. Votes: 0

They told me if I voted for Goldwater, he would get us into a war in Vietnam. Well, I voted for Goldwater and that's what happened. Votes: 0

Because Vietnam was not a declared war, the veterans are not even eligible for the G. I. Bill of Rights with respect to education or anything. Votes: 0

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam. Votes: 0

My view of Bradley Manning is that he's a very courageous young man who... did what I didn't have the guts to do during the Vietnam war. Votes: 0

The men in Vietnam weren't allowed to fight the war with any kind of concern to win by the government. It was like a war of attrition. Votes: 0

The genius of America's endless war machine is that, learning from the unpleasantness of the Vietnam war protests, it has rendered the costs of war largely invisible. Votes: 0

In the sixties, during the Vietnam war, when anarchists and pacifists and socialists, Democrats and Republicans, decent-hearted Americans, all recoiled with horror at the bloodbath, we came together. Votes: 0

I said to the president's wife, Vietnam is the main reason we are having trouble with the youth of America. It is a war without explanation or reason. Votes: 0

I saw a large, red dried swath that I immediately identified clearly as blood. I covered the war in Vietnam. I saw a lot of it [blood] there. Votes: 0

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy. Votes: 0

After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really. Votes: 0

Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior. Votes: 0

Are there really good wars and bad wars? We thought so during World War II, and in retrospect, we were right. But in Vietnam, and Iraq we were wrong. Votes: 0