Quotes of: Vietnam-veterans Keyword

I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.

James Longstreet

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived.

George S. Patton

No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.

Garret Dillahunt

There would be a paragraph about some veteran digging tunnels for the Germans in a slave labor camp, or something like that. Finally I decided to look it up and go further into it.

Charles Guggenheim

I hear daily from Hoosier veterans who are forced to wait months on end for their disability claims to be processed. Unfortunately, this is typical.

Jackie Walorski

America is a grateful nation. We cannot allow anything or anyone to get in the way of that. The words 'veteran' and 'backlog' should never appear in the same sentence.

Jackie Walorski

You'd have to go a long way to find someone who was more proud and grateful for what our veterans have done for all of us.

Jim Davis

As the daughter of a 25-year veteran of the armed forces, I am incredibly thankful for the sacrifices our women and men have made in Iraq, and continue to make in Afghanistan.

Barbara Lee

As a Korean War veteran, I know firsthand and understand the sacrifices made by our men and women in uniform.

Charles B. Rangel

Brave men rejoice in adversity, just as brave soldiers triumph in war.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I'm a veteran. If I go into the V.A. hospital in Tennessee, I want to know that the procedures they're doing to me are being done properly. That is not unreasonable.

Phil Roe

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.

Arthur Ashe

Duty, Honor, Country. Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

Douglas MacArthur

It seems to me the American people never really forgave the Democrats for being right about Vietnam.

Paul Begala

If not doing VICE, I probably would be selling Cokes on the beach in Vietnam. I like the sea.

Shane Smith

The American claim that the bombing of North Vietnam was directed against military targets does not withstand direct investigation.

Noam Chomsky

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood at the time.

Robert Dallek

Neither Johnson nor his party nor the government as a whole were willing to raise, train, equip, and then send Vietnam sufficient manpower to do the job.

Stephen Ambrose

Under Malcolm Fraser's Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss.

Richard Flanagan

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

Robert Kiyosaki

The crusades of Vietnam and Watergate seemed like a good idea at the time, even a noble one, not only to the press but perhaps to a majority of Americans.

Howard Fineman