#vietnam

When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one. ↗

— Leonard P. Matlovich

#equality #gay #military #vietnam #equality

I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story. ↗

— Tim O'Brien

#vietnam #war #life

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#america #bombs #communism #communists #vietnam

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

— William Westmoreland

#censorship #confused #ever #first #fought

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there. ↗

— Birch Bayh

#age #being #congress #die #enough

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam. ↗

— Paul Begala

#american #american people #being #democrats #forgave

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War II, before the Nuremberg trials were held and the principle of war crimes was stated. ↗

— George Wald

#before #committed #committing #crimes #held

If John Kerry had a dollar for every time he bragged about serving in Vietnam - oh wait, he does. ↗

— Ann Coulter

#does #dollar #every #every time #had

I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. ↗

— David Cross

#huge #i #i remember #kid #looking

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

— Sammy Davis, Jr.

#i #initially #me #nixon #opposed