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• The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything – anything… And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

  Richard Holbrooke

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  Tags in Vietnam, Generation

• It is a fact that the Left routinely resists, then as now: Americans fought and died in Vietnam for freedom, just as they are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan today. Whatever mistakes generals and policymakers have made along the way cannot detract from that essential truth – which should be a part of any reliable history.

  Arthur L. Herman

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  Tags in Vietnam, Generals

• Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn’t vetting the pictures and words.

   

  Bruce Jackson

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  Tags in Vietnam, War

• The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was… They put a pinch on it.

  Bob Livingston

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  Tags in War, Vietnam

• My film is not a movie; it’s not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam.

  Francis Ford Coppola

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  Tags in Vietnam, Movie

• I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

  Gerald Scarfe

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  Tags in Self, Drawings, Vietnam

• I was arrested in 1965 for opposing the war in Vietnam. There were 39 of us arrested that day. But thousands opposed us. And the majority of the people in the country supported the war then.

  Bill Ayers

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  Tags in Vietnam, Arrested

• It’s not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the right lessons.

  Tom Clancy

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  Tags in Vietnam, Loss

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

  William Westmoreland

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  Tags in Vietnam, Command

• By the end of the summer of 1973 I thought it was virtually impossible for South Vietnam to survive. How in the heck could they?

  William Westmoreland

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  Tags in Vietnam, Heck, Impossible

• I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

  William Westmoreland

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  Tags in Vietnam, War, Deserve

• President Johnson did not want the Vietnam War to broaden. He wanted the North Vietnamese to leave their brothers in the South alone.

  William Westmoreland

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  Tags in Vietnam, Alone

• We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

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  Tags in Vietnam, Vietnam War, War, Giving

• Vietnam helped me realize who the true heroes really are in this world. It’s not the home-run hitters.

  Willie Stargell

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  Tags in Vietnam, Athlete, Heroes, Hitters, Celebrity

• Someone has to die so that President Nixon won’t be, and these are his words, ‘the first President to lose a war.

  John Kerry

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  Tags in Vietnam, Nixon, War

• Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.

  William Westmoreland

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  Tags in Censorship, Vietnam, War

• I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.

  Ed Bradley

  Tags in Vietnam, Cambodia

• As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion – and I worried about it.

  William Westmoreland

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

  William Westmoreland

  Tags in Memorial, Masterpiece, Vietnam

• Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

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