Buried Quote by Sherry Garland

“I said we aren’t here to fucking like Vietnamese things, we’re here to kill or be killed by them, and telling me to wander…

— David James Duncan

“The Vietnam War was definitive in the lives of those who served. But those who made it home, never fully returned. My story was…

— Joseph M. Puglia

“Alas, poor country, almost afraid to know itself! It cannot be called our mother, but our grave.”

— William Shakespeare

“IN WRITING THIS BOOK, I returned again and again to what people call my homeland, where my parents were born, as was I. But…

— Viet Thanh Nguyen

“I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.”

— Michael Herr

“I can't go to America. I don't want to go to any foreign land where I don't speak the language or know the customs.…

— Kien Nguyen

“But, Vietnam is different than my war. We were fighting for freedom back then. This, this war now, I don’t know what we are…

— Johan Twiss

“There in that land of mine is buried the first good half of my life and more. It is as though half of me…

— Pearl S. Buck

“Sometimes when you face hardship you think you've been buried when you've actually been planted. Keep growing.”

— Itayi Garande

“a lot of lives in Vietnam were wasted by the folks driving those big desks in Washington. It’s easy to make a decision when…

— Ed Kugler

“I wish to be buried in Ireland, the country of my adoption a country which I loved, which I have dutifully served, and for…

— Thomas Drummond

When I visited Vietnam for Oxfam, the thing that really struck me was how the local farmers had to prepare to evacuate or climb…

— Martin Parr