#vietnam

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

— Jon Voight

#brought #caught #during #era #hysteria

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

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle. ↗

— Barry Goldwater

#ended #i #like #look #made

More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end, and after the American people had already decided that they did not want one more soldier to die in Vietnam. ↗

— Raul Grijalva

#already #american #american people #bring #combat

Because our homeland and very survival are once more at stake, the American people can't afford to treat this new war against terrorism like they did Vietnam. ↗

— David Hackworth

#against #american #american people #because #did

I'm sure it is, I'm not for any kind of war, we've been engaged in several wars since the second world war and we lost in Korea, we lost in Vietnam, they are political wars, they have nothing to do with any real threat, nor does this one. ↗

— Larry Hagman

#been #does #engaged #i #kind

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. ↗

— Michael Herr

#had #happy #instead #vietnam

It's shades of Vietnam again, folks: body counts. ↗

— Seymour Hersh

#body #counts #folks #shades #vietnam

Although I wasn't 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. ↗

— Tony Hillerman

#although #been #boat #feel #get