America Quote by Michael Ignatieff

“In response to a a comprehensive VA survey taken in 1980, 91% of respondents who had seen combat in Vietnam reported that they were…

— Mackubin Thomas Owens

But despite their heroic acts, the Vietnam Veterans of America continued to struggle to establish a combat badge in honor of these brave pilots…

— Tim Holden

One of the greatest injustices of the Vietnam era is the way our veterans were treated when they returned home. This compounded the pain…

— Brad Schneider

The transition after the Vietnam War to an all-volunteer force created the world's finest professional military. But it also reinforced geographic and cultural divisions…

— J. D. Vance

A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

It is time to acknowledge the extraordinary sacrifice of all of our veterans. While many Massachusetts soldiers served our nation in a period technically…

— Mitt Romney

If you listen closely to the voices of our veterans, you understand that yes, they all returned from war changed, but what never changed…

— Michael Mullen

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult…

— William Westmoreland

“The Vietnam War was the boiling point of our generation. Young people of courage and commitment often chose opposite courses of action. So did…

— Mark Anthony Sullivan

“For more than a decade, the United States had been giving large-scale military aid to the French colonialists, and then to the American-installed but…

— Edward S. Greenberg

“Perhaps the main reason America cannot 'get over' its war with Viet Nam is that Americans cannot fit what happened into its earlier myth…

— Trin Yarborough

Today, America can regain the sense of pride that existed before Vietnam. These events, tragic as they are, portend neither the end of the…

— Gerald R. Ford