Southeast asia Quote by Gustav Hasford

“War is an unbelievable potpourri of deep fear, exhilaration, dull, monotonous, dirty living, strange heroics, and complete cowardice, all intermingled to form a way…

— Robert E. Merriam

“Vietnam has the opportunity in the future to show the world how to conquer falsehood with Truth.”

— VD

“We have shared the incommunicable experience of war, we have felt, we still feel, the passion of life to its top. In our youth…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

“The Vietnam War was definitive in the lives of those who served. But those who made it home, never fully returned. My story was…

— Joseph M. Puglia

“... Ending a conflict is not so simple, not just calling it off and coming home. Because the price for that kind of peace…

— Ronald Reagan

“This book is cheerfully dedicated to those greatest and most heroic of all human endeavors, WAR and WARFARE; may they never cease to give…

— James Jones

“The Art of War articulates a doctrine less of territorial conquest than of psychological dominance; it was the way the North Vietnamese fought America”

— Henry Kissinger

“To an amazing degree, from the Revolution in 1776 to Vietnam, belief in a quick victory pervaded the opening months of almost every war…

— Thomas Fleming

“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

“The Viet Cong were not the idealistic warriors of American antiwar propaganda; they were vicious. They relied on terror.”

— Mark Bowden

“War is like art. It paints a picture mixed with lies and truths in order to help one find something absolute. It brings out…

— Lionel Suggs

“On Being Asked to Write a Poem Against the War in Vietnam Well I have and in fact more than one and I'll tell…

— Hayden Carruth