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With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.
These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.
I've often wondered what it would have been like if we'd had cable news during the Vietnam War and Watergate.
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
The worst nightmare I ever had about Vietnam was that I had to go back. I woke up in a sweat, in total terror.
You have my assurance that we will respond with full force should the settlement be violated by North Vietnam.
One of the things I am most proud of is refusing to serve in the military when drafted during the Vietnam War.
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate.
The Vietnam memorial is a masterpiece. The names of the dead are listed there, chronologically. Just the names.
The United States must keep a low profile in Vietnam so we can negotiate its neutralization like we did in Laos .
[After Vietnam] the type of interventions that are carried out are designed so as not to elicit public reactions.
Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War.
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
I dropped out in '64. And I came back to Michigan, in '65. In 1965, when I came back I had never heard of Vietnam.
We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.
Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me.
One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.
I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
I simply told people what I thought about the state of the war in Vietnam, and it was that we better get out of this.
Some useful advice for all of my Asian-American brothers and sisters - never go paint-balling with a Vietnam veteran.
When I was growing up, it was a bad time to be in the military. It was the time of Vietnam, but I was never called up.
I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.
There's such a connection between Vietnam and America, but it should be one of friendship. Not bitterness. Not enemies.
I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.
George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam.
My parents are both war veterans; they met in Vietnam. They were involved in a war that they absolutely disagreed with.
America never formally surrenders, so we have to call surrender something else. In Vietnam, we called it Vietnamization.
The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.
How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake?
The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.
In Hue, Vietnam, we had savory rice pancakes with crumbled shrimp and pork rinds. I've still never had a version as good.
What is this demilitarized zone? Whatever it is, I like it! Gets you on your toes better than a strong cup of cappuccino.
In his life, Donald Trump's had a great track record of failure, bankruptcies, running from Vietnam, everything like that.
I confess. If the law had been appiled to me properly for what I did in Vietnam, I'd have been convicted for high treason.
If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.
President Bush is not fazed by other candidates' war records. He said, I may have not fought in Vietnam, but I created one.
After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.
Perhaps the thing that most got to me was the ide - the whole thing about lying, and how pervasive lying about Vietnam was.
I felt only a conservative president could bring peace in Vietnam 'cause he wouldn't be accused of being soft on communism.
The U.S. dropped more high explosives on Vietnam than the Allies used on Germany and Japan together in the Second World War.
My dad was in the Navy; he was in Vietnam. My mom was trying to sell real estate on the side. We didn't have a lot of money.
The massive anti-war movement, which I was a part of and which was a major part of my life, never stopped the war in Vietnam.
'In Country' is about a high school girl's quest for knowledge about her father, who died in Vietnam just before she was born.
No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.
Vietnam is absolutely breathtaking. I've never been to that part of the world before and it is an area of such natural beauty.
In April 1975 I was born and the Vietnam War ended. I could not let any American die in war before seeing an episode of Scrubs.
Vietnam is often called our only uncensored war, but that only means that the government wasn't vetting the pictures and words.
We must never forget that if the war in Vietnam is lost ... the right of free speech will be extinguished throughout the world.
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?