Iron Quote by Bill Ward

The signs of the Vietnam War protestors said "Make Love not War!" It didn't seem to me that they were capable of either.

— Ronald Reagan

These are times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their…

— Thomas Paine

America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley…

— Michael Ignatieff

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

— Michael Herr

“The Vietnam War was the boiling point of our generation. Young people of courage and commitment often chose opposite courses of action. So did…

— Mark Anthony Sullivan

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

— Jim Webb

As for those deserters, malcontents, radicals, incendiaries, the civil and uncivil disobedients among the young, SDS, PLP, Weathermen I and Weathermen II, the revolutionary…

— Spiro T. Agnew

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

— Benjamin Spock

“He [Lyndon Baines Johnson]turned out to be so many different characters he could have populated all of War and Peace and still had a…

— Herbert Mitgang

“They (Reagan and Kennedy) had some combination of cheerfulness and vulnerability that made them seem like boys on adventure who had become lost in…

— Scott Farris

“I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.”

— Michael Herr

In World War II movies, everybody is gung ho and patriotic. The Vietman War was somewhat different, to say the least.

— Ken Wahl