#vietnam

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

— Martin Luther King, Jr.

#battlefield #casualties #down #great #great society

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened. ↗

— Bob Schieffer

#been #had #happened #i #i think

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it happened and it's done, it's published. I won't write another book on Vietnam. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#another #best #book #done #happened

These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam. ↗

— Neil Sheehan

#blamed #fighting #man #men #never

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

The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq. ↗

— Mohammed Aldouri

#did #invasion #iraq #never #succeed

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. ↗

— Henry A. Kissinger

#emphasize #i #i tried #interest #make

I went to Kent State basically to avoid going to Vietnam, I had no idea what I was doing in the world. I was lost, and trying not to get into a fight every day. ↗

— Mark Mothersbaugh

#basically #day #doing #every #every day

No one is immune from the larger events of his or her time - the Depression, World War II, civil rights, Vietnam, the spring of 1989 in China. These events intrude upon our lives and radically affect our directions. ↗

— Paul Tsongas

#china #civil #civil rights #depression #directions

I took the thin magazine from the pouch in front of me and began to thumb through it. I felt self-conscious, as if I shouldn't be there. My mind began to wander, as I knew it would, back to the boonies. I was on patrol again. Monaco was on point. Peewee and Walowick followed him. Lobel and Brunner were next, then Johnson, the sixty cradled in his arm as if it were a child. We were walking the boonies, past rice paddies, toward yet another hill. I was in the rear, and for some reason I turned back. Behind me, trailing the platoon, were the others. Brew, Jenkins, Sergeant Dongan, Turner, and Lewis, the new guys, and Lieutenant Carroll. I knew I was mixing my prayers, but it didn't matter. I just wanted God to care for them, to keep them whole. I knew they were thinking about me and Peewee. ↗

— Walter Dean Myers

#fallen-angels #my-feels #soldiers #vietnam #war