Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.
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...
World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me. I knew very extensively a lot about World War I.
There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.
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.
Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
A country that has been through as much as Vietnam has to have some crazy music somewhere.
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
Emmy Lou Harris introduced me to the work of the Vietnam Veterans of America foundation and the Campaign for a Land Mine Free World.
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my ...
It was the same in World War I, when Woodrow Wilson, also a tool of the Jews, maneuvered it into the war.
The fear of war is worse than war itself.
I actually love history. I've devoured book after book of stories from World War I and World War II. They're really two sections of world history that really interest me.
Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
The World War I, I'm a child of World War I. And I really know about the children of war. Because both my parents were both badly damaged by the war. My father, physically, and both mentally and emotionally. So, I know exactly what it's like to be br...
Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam.
I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.
