America Quote by Michael Yates

Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

Like everyone else, I was at least peripherally involved in the antiwar movement. You woke up every morning feeling tormented about what was going…

— Robert Hass

Television and movies were our biggest teachers. When we came to the United States, the Vietnam War was just ratcheting up. And so the…

— Alex Tizon

There was a generation of kids who were just kind of emulating distant heroes and wearing peace symbols, and parents who were thinking of…

— Wes Craven

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam War and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like…

— Richard Hell

The unraveling that I experienced much earlier in the Vietnam war than many people think, was due to the immediate foxhole experiences. But once…

— Philip Caputo

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

— George McGovern

I was lost, and that war [in Vietnam] was very alienating - not that I was against it or for it, but I was…

— Oliver Stone

“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

I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an ominous thing, I…

— Dylan McDermott

Vietnam affected everything in life while it went on. My time in the service made it clear to me that what we were being…

— Jim Starlin

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