#vietnam

As Bill Clinton said so eloquently at the convention, during Vietnam there was a chance to serve; there was a chance not to serve. ↗

— Mark Shields

#bill clinton #chance #clinton #convention #during

Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It's not the home-run hitters. ↗

— Willie Stargell

#heroes #hitters #me #realize #really

He's a novice, but he's had these - he's experienced in leadership in tight circumstances. He started - he dropped the first bomb, led the first air strike into North Vietnam. ↗

— James Stockdale

#bomb #circumstances #dropped #experienced #first

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China. ↗

— Anna Louise Strong

#automatically #because #china #days #down

Vietnam was a lie but at least there was a political agenda. It was the domino theory. Iraq is about nothing but George Bush's ego laced with imperialist ambitions. And it was helped by your government. ↗

— Donald Sutherland

#agenda #bush #domino #ego #george

In World War One, they called it shell shock. Second time around, they called it battle fatigue. After 'Nam, it was post-traumatic stress disorder. ↗

— Jan Karon

#post-traumatic-stress-disorder #shell-shock #vietnam-war #war #world-war-one

It don't mean nothin ↗

— Bruce H. Norton

#death

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous. ↗

— John Negroponte

#cambodia #communist #conditions #enormous #even

After every major conflict - World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the fall of the Soviet Union - what happened was that we ultimately hollowed out the force, largely by doing deep across-the-board cuts. ↗

— Leon Panetta

#conflict #cuts #deep #doing #every

I look and there's our boy from Vietnam and our daughter from Ethiopia, and our girl was born in Namibia, and our son is from Cambodia, and they're brothers and sisters, man. They're brothers and sisters and it's a sight for elation. ↗

— Brad Pitt

#boy #brothers #cambodia #daughter #elation