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We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
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'Flappy Bird' was one of those phenomena. If we could all build one now, we would. Probably a bunch of us are… — Chris DeWolfe Copy Share Image
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The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
People that spend time in a foxhole - they're never going to find that relationship anywhere else again... Everything else pales next… — Sylvester Stallone Copy Share Image
On many occasions in the late 1950s and 1960s, [Ho Chi Minh's] ideas were apparently ignored by those who felt that his… — William J. Duiker Copy Share Image
But, you know, I just did a big trip in the spring to Vietnam and Cambodia and Thailand, and that's when I… — Lisa See Copy Share Image
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The 50,000 Korean mercenaries we had in Vietnam were professional killers and just massacred people outright. And the American army did plenty… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“Anyway, you couldn’t use standard methods to date the doom; might as well say that Vietnam was where the Trail of Tears… — Michael Herr Copy Share Image
As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II,… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without… — Dylan Ratigan Copy Share Image
In fact, it's pretty dramatic when you get to 1975, very revealing, the [Vietnam] war ends. Everybody had to write something about… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
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I covered the Vietnam War. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when,… — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy… — Jim Webb Copy Share Image
People talk about the 1960s in a nostalgic way, but to me it was terrifying. People were getting assassinated. There was Vietnam.… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image
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![“In fact, it's pretty dramatic when you get to 1975, very revealing, the [Vietnam] war ends. Everybody had to write something about the war, what it meant. You also had polls of public opinion, and they're dramatically different.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0db/noam-chomsky-42_different_in-fact-it-s-pretty-dramatic-when-you-ge_1935071.jpg)
