Quotes About War

A photograph can make you feel so many different things. When you look at war photographs of Vietnam, or something similar, it makes you feel anguish and sadness and pain. Then in other moments, when you look at Jackie Kennedy walking down Fifth Avenue, that makes you feel glory and richness.

I know of no scholar more dedicated to bringing a thorough and accurate portrayal of America's involvement in Vietnam than Mark Moyar. Everyone who is interested in a full picture of that oft-misunderstood war should be grateful for his effort.

When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

Vietnam was not a war of choice the United States had to fight. It was clearly not central.

Nixon did have a secret plan, and I knew that it involved making threats of nuclear war to North Vietnam.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

I gave up my children to an American couple and went to Vietnam on an army assignment where I helped soldiers identify and get rid of hidden mines.

America never formally surrenders, so we have to call surrender something else. In Vietnam, we called it Vietnamization.

My family had to leave Vietnam because my uncles fought alongside the Aussies.

The military has been determined to control the images of war since Vietnam. They're convinced that they lost the war because of loss of political support back home, because people saw what was going on.

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.

There's never been anything like the so-called Vietnam Syndrome: it's mostly a fabrication.

Vietnam was as much a laboratory experiment as a 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.

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.

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

A lot of people were ambivalent about Vietnam. Lyndon Johnson in 1964 positioned himself as the peace candidate. Once Johnson sent large amounts of troops into battle in 1965, most Americans were behind the war.

Being in Vietnam and being around a major story of the time was always a great shot of adrenaline.

My mind-set is Munich. Most of my generation's is Vietnam.

If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.