American soldier Quote by Adam Hochschild

“Then it came across the radio: Bravo Company had found one other survivor from our 2nd Platoon. He had been badly wounded in the…

— Harold G. Moore

“He had not understood that we were combat photographers, and our jobs were as relevant and justifiable—or as irrelevant and unjustifiable—as anyone’s in Vietnam.”

— Nick Mills

“I said we aren’t here to fucking like Vietnamese things, we’re here to kill or be killed by them, and telling me to wander…

— David James Duncan

“I keep thinking about all the kids who got wiped out by seventeen years of war movies before coming to Vietnam to get wiped…

— Michael Herr

“It was the sixties, exactly, all we wanted to do was to smoke a lot of dope and ball a lot of chicks. Vietnam,…

— Ben Fountain

“a lot of lives in Vietnam were wasted by the folks driving those big desks in Washington. It’s easy to make a decision when…

— Ed Kugler

“Was your old man in the war?" "He was in the air force. He built runways." "The fucking air farce. He ever tell you…

— Anthony Swofford

“Wait a second,” Andy said, snapping his fingers. “You're Vietnamese.” “Don't say it,” Sun warned. But Andy, a grin stretched across his face, couldn't…

— Lee Goldberg

“We were at the home base of the holy man who encouraged presidents to drop bombs on poor Cockroaches in far-off villages in Vietnam”

— Oscar Zeta Acosta

“Vietnam is still, as it was thirty years ago, a poor country of rice paddy farms and sandy harbors, where fishermen cast nets from…

— Susan O'Neill

“The article I actually write is a masterpiece. It takes talent to convince people that war is a beautiful experience. Come one, come all…

— Gustav Hasford

“Five German soldiers and a police dog on a leash were looking down into the bed of the creek. The soldiers' blue eyes were…

— Kurt Vonnegut