“No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”
Richard M. Nixon
“Vietnam was an exercise in mistaken idealism; Iraq in cynical money-making. And there's no optimism or idealism now -- Americans are tired of knowledge. Our leaders, the C-students from Yale, know this. We're proud of being ignorant; that leaves virtue at our core. We aren't frazzled by knowledge like foreigners, so we can be trusted.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“Within the soul of each Vietnam veteran there is probably something that says "Bad war, good soldier." Only now are Americans beginning to separate the war from the warrior.”
Max Cleland
“Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam.”
Marshall McLuhan
“Vietnam was the first war ever fought without any censorship. Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind.”
Gen William C. Westmoreland
“I believe that when you know something's going wrong, you make it right. That's what I learned in Vietnam. When I came back from that war I saw that it was wrong. Some people don't like the fact that I stood up to say no, but I did”
Senator John Kerry
“One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society...shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
