Vietnam Quotes - Page 2

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

With respect to where we are now, we have a voluntary army. And if we ever go back to conscription I hope that at time it will be the kind of conscription that was put in at the end of the Vietnam War. And that is, everybody is equally liable to be called to serve the nation in time of conflict.

I remember serving in Vietnam in that war, and many of us at the major Lieutenant Colonel, colonel level were frustrated that no one in the U.S. wanted to debate it that way.

How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

It seems now more certain than ever that the bloody experience of Vietnam is to end in a stalemate.

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

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

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

Vietnam was worse than immoral - it was a mistake.

As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion - and I worried about it.

What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adversaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans.

The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.

I was caught up in the hysteria during the Vietnam era, which was brought about through Marxist propaganda underlying the so-called peace movement.

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.

I'm very moved to be here today, ... Our lives are now much better, but Vietnam remains a very poor country. We need to work much harder.

When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail

I say openly that I am an anti-war person, with the point being, show me some reason not to be against this war. You have to be sort of asleep at the switch not to be critical of it. And the parallel between one quagmire we went through in Vietnam and the one we're in now is clear for everybody to see.

In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam.

Although I wasnt able to get a visa for Vietnam, I was able to talk with swift boat veterans to get a feel for the time and place, and I visited a tropical prison in the Philippines to get a sense of what a Vietnamese prison might have been like.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.

I formed the hypothesis that each of us could have achieved our objectives without the terrible loss of life. And I wanted to test that by going to Vietnam.

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.

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