#vietnam

Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case. ↗

— Peter Scott

#australia #australians #brought #buried #case

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

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

— Benjamin Spock

#because #i #opposed #proud #vietnam

To win in Vietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation. ↗

— Benjamin Spock

#nation #vietnam #will #win

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam. ↗

— Parker Stevenson

#could #day #draft #end #floored

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

Combat is fast, unfair, cruel, and dirty. It is meant to be that way so that the terrible experience is branded into the memory of those who are fortunate enough to survive. It is up to those survivors to ensure that the experience is recorded and passed along to those who just might want to try it. ↗

— Bruce H. Norton

#foce-recon #marines #military-history #vietnam #vietnam-war

The crimes committed by the North Vietnamese regime against the Vietnamese people were minor compared to the crimes committed by the Khmer Rouge against the Cambodians, but for us on the left they were emotionally far more significant. ↗

— James Donald

#committed #compared #crimes #emotionally #far

Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days. ↗

— R. Lee Ermey

#better now #communications #days #now #than