In response to a a comprehensive VA survey taken in 1980, 91% of respondents who had seen combat in Vietnam reported that they were glad they had served their country. A healthy 80% disagreed with the statement that the US took advantage of me. Two o...
Melodramas of moral courage provide satisfaction through the comforting fantasy that our own character would hold steady under the most extreme pressure of dreadful events. [But we must face] the painful awareness that in all likelyhood one's own cha...
When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. It was sort of an extension of World War II. And it was, of course, the peak of the Cold War. People in Taiwan were generally proAmerican. The Korean War ...
Richard Nixon had made a fatal error in ignoring the politico-meteorological dimension when he announced the expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia on April 30, 1970. The invasion of Laos, on the other hand, happened in February 1971, and the cam...
This is what happened when one left one's home - pieces of oneself scattered all over the world, no one place ever completely satisfied, always a nostalgia for the place left behind. Pieces of her in Vietnam, some in this place of bone. She brought t...
Otto: You know your problem? You don't like winners. Archie: Winners? Otto: Yeah. Winners. Archie: Winners, like North Vietnam? Otto: Shut up. We didn't lose Vietnam. It was a tie! Archie: [going into a cowboy-like drawl] I'm tellin' ya baby, they ki...
We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.
My father had gone to Vietnam.
I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.
I wanted to have the opportunity to travel to Vietnam and Sydney, and have the chance to work there.
Certainly the Australians were buried in Korea. But I think that from Vietnam on, all the killed were brought home to America or to Australia, in our case.
Lyndon B. Johnson thought he'd have the boys home from Vietnam by Christmas - for four Christmases in a row (he never shifted course, and lost his presidency for it).
Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a war.
The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.
Communications are better now than in my Vietnam days.
Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.
Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.
Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.
I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.
My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.
