Under Malcolm Fraser’s Liberal governments in the 1970s, large numbers of refugees fleeing Vietnam in wretched boats were taken in without any great fuss. – Richard Flanagan
George W. had a plan. He arranged to join the Air National Guard in Texas, which meant he would not be sent to Vietnam. – Peter Jennings
Back in the old Corp, we weren’t training those privates to infiltrate into the peacetime Marine Corp. We were training those privates to go to Vietnam. – R. Lee Ermey
I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war. – Robert Jay Lifton
Kennedy is remembered as a success mainly because of what came after: Johnson and Vietnam. Nixon and Watergate. – Robert Dallek
I would not trade you a billion dollars for the kids I led to combat in Vietnam or in fact any of the Marines that I served with for a quarter of a century. – Oliver North
Lyndon Johnson is not a comfortable model for President Obama to imitate. He is an all-but-forgotten president – pilloried for the failed war in Vietnam and criticized for grandiose reforms conservatives denounce as the epitome of federal social engineering that costs too much and does too little. – Robert Dallek
As the senior commander in Vietnam, I was aware of the potency of public opinion – and I worried about it. – William Westmoreland
I returned to Vietnam in ’94, and even then, all those decades later, walking around that place, I remained afraid. And, in some ways, rightly so. – Tim O’Brien
When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves. – William Westmoreland
In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people. – Walter Cronkite
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
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there. – William Westmoreland
Moms and daughters can negotiate over anything, and they can go on longer than it took to settle the Vietnam War. – Steve Schirripa
During the Vietnam era, more than 30,000 draft dodgers and deserters sought harbor in cities like Montreal and Toronto, where public opposition to the war was strong and most residents didn’t question their motives. – Wil S. Hylton
