Been Quote by Michael Ignatieff

My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to…

— Fiorello H. La Guardia

We learned some bad things, and the Vietnam War led to some bad conclusions. We're not the greatest generation, that's for sure.

— Whit Stillman

We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.

— Joshua Ferris

Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had…

— Paul Solman

I don't quite understand how a generation and a half after the Second World War we've gotten where we are now.

— Zoe Leonard

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

I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war was a defining experience.…

— Linda Grant

Every generation has its war. I have just been reminded of mine. It ended in 1989, 43 years after it began, the longest war…

— Simon Jenkins

I think sometimes you go through an experience, and you don't feel the impact, especially in a war experience, until way past it.

— Tom King

I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that without such…

— Mark Satin

I am of the Vietnam generation; therefore, I feel mistrustful of the military.

— John Densmore