Army Quote by Lawrence Wright

That was luck: I should not then have been a conscientious objector; but I am quite sure that the abominations of war would have…

— Laurence Housman

I was very head-strong, and this was the Vietnam War era - You did not listen to your parents or other authority figures. You…

— Frances Arnold

I joined the People's Armed Forces in 1961 to 1984, and I was also a soldier in the southern battle of Vietnam during the…

— Nguyen Tan Dung

When I volunteered for the draft as a 20-year-old, mischievous guy at the height of the Vietnam War, most thought I was destined to…

— Dan Pena

I was essentially trained by World War II vets who combined a progressive view of life with a deep distrust of anything authoritarian.

— Sander Levin

During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than…

— Al Franken

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

— Neil Sheehan

My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing villagers in…

— Patty Jenkins

My father had gone to Vietnam.

— Elizabeth Edwards

“By far the easiest grounds for gaining conscientious objector status in wartime are religious. You can be a brilliant moral philosopher with a prize-winning…

— Richard Dawkins

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

— Al Franken

I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.

— Mike Mansfield