110 Quotes About Vietnam-war
- Author Richard M. Rorty
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[T]he American Left, in its horror at the Vietnam War, reinvented sin.
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- Author Sara Niles
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In America, it is reported by some sources that there were more domestic violence related murders in the home than the 58,000 Americans soldiers killed in the entire Vietnam War
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- Author Thanhha Lai
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Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.
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- Author James M. McGarrity
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Don't step off the road --- There might be another one!
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- Author Michael Zboray
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I want to forget this awful place. Yet, at the same time, I never want to forget the many lessons that enabled me to mature quickly from just a skinny kid with a scraggly mustache, into a young man working so hard to seem older than his few years, as he evolves into early manhood.
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- Author Michael Zboray
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The talking works most of the time. Sometimes though, it isn’t enough. Then, many turn to drugs. It’s widespread in Vietnam. Pot is the drug of choice for most casual users. Only the hardcore users step up to the harder drugs like cocaine, opium or heroin.
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- Author A.K. Kuykendall
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Like walking into the darkness our soldiers went their lives like cash haphazardly spent. Vietnam was a conflict that was no more than an experiment aimed at humanity's scientific evolution.
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- Author Colum McCann
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He could help put a man on the Moon, but he couldn’t count the body bags. Send a satellite spinning, but he couldn’t figure out how many crosses to go into the ground.
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- Author Joseph M. Puglia
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The Vietnam War was definitive in the lives of those who served. But those who made it home, never fully returned. My story was an attempt to find that part of me who remained in-country. Upon the story’s completion, I realized the part I left behind, was perpetually lost.
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