Australia Quote by Phillip Noyce

Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.

— Myra MacPherson

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

— Alexander Haig

My family had to leave Vietnam because my uncles fought alongside the Aussies.

— Anh Do

I had grown up during Vietnam. I had no connections to the U.S. military, and I had a pretty cynical default opinion about the…

— Sebastian Junger

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

I had been in that part of the world as a soldier in Korea, so I had been interested in Vietnam.

— Michael Caine

I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what end? What…

— Richard Armitage

I wish that George W. Bush had gone to Vietnam, because he would have seen history in a different light. He would've experienced it…

— Oliver Stone

The Vietnam War was in full swing, the Air Force wanted me and I wanted out of Flint, so three years in the USA…

— Doug Rice

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

Vietnam is no longer a war, it's a country. I think that that's very important to understand. And the Vietnamese - last time a…

— Michael W. Michalak

But although Australia was also involved in the Vietnam conflict, I can remember my dad telling us that if we were in Australia, we…

— Mel Gibson