American Quote by Karl Marlantes

Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.

— Kurt Vonnegut

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do…

— Tom Wolfe

The Vietnam War was taking place, which was raising all sorts of questions in the United States, and it was forcing Asian-Americans to stop…

— Grace Lee Boggs

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

— Myra MacPherson

Vietnam was a terrible mistake for the United States. But like Iraq, Vietnam was a badly chosen battlefield in a larger conflict with totalitarianism…

— Jacob Weisberg

In Vietnam, America fought one whose communism was driven by an underlying nationalism, the desire to live free of the West. Whatever one may…

— Shelby Steele

What really happened in Vietnam was- all these things are away games for the American military. We're not on our home turf, which means…

— William J. Clinton

For many Americans, 'Vietnam' is a word associated with war and the extraordinarily complex history between our countries. But since normalization began, the U.S.…

— Ben Rhodes

When the United States fought in Vietnam, it was organized modern technology versus organized human beings, and the human beings won.

— Howard Zinn

The first half of Vietnam was fought to win the war, and the second half of Vietnam was soldiers going haywire without a mission,…

— Dylan Ratigan

I think that the Vietnam War era is important because we tend not to want to revisit it. For black people, there was the…

— Darryl Pinckney

The U.S. military was segregated 'til the Korean War, and the blacks in World War Two were totally segregated.

— Clint Eastwood