Growing up Quote by Greg Mottola

I'm from the Vietnam generation.

— John Densmore

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

— Jim Webb

I have a few memories of being young here in the United States, but almost no recollections of being young in Vietnam.

— Khoi Vinh

I did go to Vietnam in 2000 as a kind of pilgrimage and to feel my generation was very much a part of this.…

— Anne Waldman

I am of the Vietnam generation; therefore, I feel mistrustful of the military.

— John Densmore

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

— Michael Herr

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.

— Whit Stillman

“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

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

— Alexander Haig

For educated Americans like Joseph Ellis, Vietnam is a special hang-up. I am an Englishman of exactly the Vietnam generation, a couple of years…

— Geoffrey Wheatcroft

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends…

— Phillip Noyce

I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

— Stephen Ambrose