Forget Quote by Michael Herr

World War II is smothered in sentimentality and nostalgia. What's interesting about Vietnam is that sentimentality is just not there, so you're given kind…

— Ken Burns

We have forgotten that Vietnam, and Iraq resent being invaded and know the ground better than we do.

— Wendell Berry

Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now…

— James Donald

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

— Stephen Ambrose

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

I would say that the Vietnamese should remember that they didn't have exactly the same mobility the way the Americans have. They didn't have…

— Bui Diem

Take a look at public opinion. About 70 percent of the population, in the polls, said the [Vietnam ] war was fundamentally wrong and…

— Noam Chomsky

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the…

— Christopher Hitchens

You've gotta be careful. People don't want to be reminded of Vietnam and Korea. We lost thousands of fine young men and didn't win…

— Hal Needham

Vietnam was a palpable failure. And of course, in retrospect, it was even more clearly a disaster and a failure than maybe people understood…

— Robert Dallek

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

People never forget things, they just never remembered it in the first place because it was too boring

— Richard Saul Wurman