Danger Quote by Philip Caputo

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

— Neil Sheehan

At least I'm at peace with myself. I have done my best to write a book about what really happened there and why it…

— Neil Sheehan

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their…

— Mort Walker

The pictures that were coming from Vietnam were showing us what was really happening on the ground level. It was in contradiction to what…

— James Nachtwey

My mother tried really hard to protect us, but occasionally, after afternoon cartoons of whatever was on... the nightly news would come on, and…

— Suzanne Collins

The responsibility for the risks we posed to others in some of our most extreme actions in those underground years never leaves my thoughts…

— Bill Ayers

As a war correspondent, you have to weigh the risk you run against the story you can get.

— Asne Seierstad

“He had not understood that we were combat photographers, and our jobs were as relevant and justifiable—or as irrelevant and unjustifiable—as anyone’s in Vietnam.”

— Nick Mills

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

— Peter King

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

When I was writing my first book, 'In Harm's Way,' I witnessed the sense of sacrifice that those WWII veterans possessed. I was surprised…

— Doug Stanton

I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War.

— Lawrence Wright