#vietnam war

I'm a lad of the '60s. I started a magazine to try and end the Vietnam war, but it was a number of years before I had the profile, the financial resources and the time to do more. ↗

— Richard Branson

#end #financial #financial resources #had #i

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

— David Cross

#huge #i #i remember #kid #looking

My opposition to the Vietnam War. I was the first Hollywood actor to speak out against it. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#against #first #hollywood #i #opposition

So, I've never been politically correct, even before that term was available to us, and I have really identified with other people who don't want to be read as just a black poet, or just a woman poet, or just someone who represents a cause, an anti-Vietnam war poet. ↗

— Diane Wakoski

#been #before #black #cause #correct

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived. ↗

— Mort Walker

#army #attacking #both #both sides #experiences

I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights. ↗

— John Wooden

#deny #going #i #opposed #other

When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War made Japan. And then the Vietnam War made Taiwan. There is some truth to that. ↗

— Ang Lee

#asia #cold #cold war #course #extension

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. ↗

— Maya Lin

#anything #because #deliberately #did #eclipsed

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it. ↗

— Bob Livingston

#pinch #put #vietnam #vietnam war #war

I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I felt as if it was going to trickle down to me. ↗

— Dylan McDermott

#draft #felt #going #i #me