181 Quotes About Vietnam

for years now there had been no country here but the war.

If they didn't want to know, they shouldn't have asked.

The only thing war will ever do (and do well), is decrease the world’s population of young men.

The one certain thing In the Army is – nothing is ever certain.

When you’re in the boonies and fighting for your own life, you can’t stop and have a good cry because the best friend in your life just checked out of the war and left nothing but emptiness in his place.

South Vietnam no longer exists.One woman tries to throwherself overboard,screaming that without a countryshe cannot live.

We who have seen war will never stop seeing it.

We who have seen war, will never stop seeing it. In the silence of the night, we will always hear the screams. So this is our story, for we were soldiers once, and young

The merits of rival causes are never absolute. Even in the Second World War, the Western allied struggle against fascism was compromised by its reliance upon the tyranny of Stalin to pay most of the blood price for destroying the tyranny of Hitler. Only simpletons of the political Right and Left dare to suggest that in Vietnam either side possessed a monopoly of virtue.