Dear friend Quote by Joe Walsh

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

— Khoi Vinh

“Roughly 80 percent of American soldiers in Vietnam were from poor or working-class backgrounds. Neither in college nor in graduate school—where most students received…

— James T. Patterson

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

The Vietnam War was causing people to get drafted; I had received a deferment to finish my undergraduate education, and in order to continue…

— Robert Shapiro

The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were…

— Tom Morello

I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd…

— Ed Koch

I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just…

— Parker Stevenson

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.

— Neil Young

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

When I was growing up, it was a bad time to be in the military. It was the time of Vietnam, but I was…

— Terry O'Quinn

“For these reasons the Vietnam-era army (unlike the armies that had fought in World War II or Korea) consisted disproportionately of the poor, minority…

— James T. Patterson

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we…

— Mel Gibson