Quotes of: Vietnam-veterans Keyword

Withdrawal of American troops must be a unilateral act, as the invasion of Vietnam by the American government was a unilateral act in the first place.

Noam Chomsky

I'd rather go to Vietnam than get married.

Joe Namath

In the winter of 1973, the American POWs held captive in Vietnam were released according to the terms of the Paris Peace Accords.

Annie Jacobsen

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

Noam Chomsky

Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.

Robert Dallek

For more than a decade, the United States had been giving large-scale military aid to the French colonialists, and then to the American-installed but authoritarian South Vietnamese government, to fight nationalists and communists in Vietnam. More tha...

The Struggle for Democracy

Willard: [voice-over] The machinist, the one they called Chef, was from New Orleans. He was wrapped too tight for Vietnam; probably wrapped too tight for New Orleans. Lance, on the forward .50s, was a famous surfer from the beaches south of LA. One l...

Apocalypse Now

Verily, a man should not cling to those who have passed, for he will likely neglect service to the living.

Veterans of the Psychic Wars

America's veterans deserve the very best health care because they've earned it.

Jim Ramstad

America's veterans embody the ideals upon which America was founded more than 229 years ago.

Steve Buyer

Veterans' issues are quite close to my heart. I find it quite hard to talk about, actually.

John Oliver

As a Korean War Veteran, I know too well the troubling nature of war. This is why I will always support a diplomatic answer before military intervention.

Charles B. Rangel

When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes.

Napoleon Bonaparte

The only thing that makes battle psychologically tolerable is the brotherhood among soldiers. You need each other to get by.

Sebastian Junger

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

Noam Chomsky

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

Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.

Hanoi Hannah

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

Jim Webb

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

Ed Bradley

A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.

Henry Rollins

Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

Bill Ayers