Capable Quote by Christopher Hitchens

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it…

— Michael Herr

I am not haunted by memories of Vietnam. But I must admit I never thought we would again witness in my lifetime the specter…

— John McCain

The true lesson of the Vietnam War is: certainty of purpose and ruthlessness of execution win wars.

— Ronald Reagan

Until we go through it ourselves, until our people cower in the shelters of New York, Washington, Chicago, Los Angeles and elsewhere while the…

— William L. Shirer

We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.

— Wendell Berry

Vietnam should remind conservatives that whenever you put your faith in big government for any reason, sooner or later you wind up an apologist…

— Karl Hess

A nation that forgets its past can function no better than an individual with amnesia.

— David McCullough

Never forget those who were killed. Never let rest those who killed them.

— Douglas A. Zembiec

“If you don't recognize your own crimes, there's no impediment to continuing them. There's a pretty dramatic example of that right at this moment.…

— Noam Chomsky

You don't attack the grunts of Vietnam; you blame the theory behind the war. Nobody who fought in that war was at fault. It…

— James Hillman

“The ones who did it can always rationalize their actions and even forget what they did. They can turn away from things they don't…

— Haruki Murakami

We've committed many war crimes in Vietnam - but I'll tell you something interesting about that. We were committing war crimes in World War…

— George Wald