#vietnam

The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#dead #just #listed #masterpiece #memorial

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

— William Westmoreland

#command #emphasis #food #gave #great

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#came #celebrations #home #memorial #parades

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

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate. ↗

— Lew Wasserman

#answered #believe #communicate #felt #i

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

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It was the war itself that was at fault. It's the same thing with psychotherapy. ↗

— James Hillman

#behind #blame #fault #fought #grunts

Vietnamese must be made to feel that they are racial inferiors with no right to national identity. ↗

— Wilfred Burchett

#identity #inferiors #made #must #national

South Vietnam faces total defeat, and soon. ↗

— William Colby

#faces #soon #south #south vietnam #total

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam. ↗

— Daniel Ellsberg

#i #involved #knew #making #nixon