#vietnam

The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in chanting about death, the only real god they knew. ↗

— Karl Marlantes

#music #vietnam-war #death

It seems to be that when these communist regimes take over - if you look at the example of Vietnam or Cambodia or Nicaragua - that even in conditions of peace they don't seem to be able to figure out how to support their people, and the human suffering is enormous. ↗

— John Negroponte

#cambodia #communist #conditions #enormous #even

Under this scientific and moral pressure, the Canadian government conceded publicly that the use of these weapons in Vietnam was, in their view, a contravention of the Geneva Protocol. ↗

— John Charles Polanyi

#conceded #geneva #government #moral #pressure

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#christmas #could #country #home #how

We should declare war on North Vietnam. We could pave the whole country and put parking strips on it, and still be home by Christmas. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#could #country #declare #home #north

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam. ↗

— Madeleine Albright

#mind-set #most #munich #vietnam

John Kerry's service did not end in Vietnam. It began there. ↗

— Max Cleland

#did #end #john #kerry #service

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century. ↗

— William Kirby

#century #east #east asia #end #first

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam. ↗

— Robert Kiyosaki

#great #i #leadership #military #military school

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