Ends Quote by Peter P. Mahoney

I was too important to go to Vietnam.

— Mitt Romney

You can bring your enemies to their knees with the possible exception of the North Vietnamese.

— James Taylor

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

The Vietnamese have a secret weapon. It's their willingness to die beyond our willingness to kill. In effect, they've been saying, You can kill…

— George Wald

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

— Mike Mansfield

Having grown up as a young Army officer in the Vietnam era, I had an instinctual sort of notion that you have to look…

— Jack Reed

Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me.

— Newt Gingrich

I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

— Lawrence Wright

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

— John Densmore

On my discharge, I had the challenge of putting my life back together but Vietnam stuck in the inner recesses of my mind.

— Doug Rice

I'm old and crazy, but I still give a damn. And I still think the boys got screwed over in Vietnam.

— Waylon Jennings

It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.

— Mitt Romney