America Quote by Stephen Colbert

I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that without such…

— Mark Satin

We had the Vietnam War in the '60s, and there was a draft. The students didn't believe in it, and it unified them.

— Neil Young

The transition after the Vietnam War to an all-volunteer force created the world's finest professional military. But it also reinforced geographic and cultural divisions…

— J. D. Vance

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

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

— John Densmore

In a time when our nation is engaged in multiple, long-term wars, it's critical that "the military" not become an abstraction to the vast…

— James M Strock

[ Vietnam War] brought the people together and made the '60s like they were. The youth were very unified against the status quo -…

— Neil Young

“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 remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just…

— Parker Stevenson

“National service sounds like a utopian concept for social leveling, and it might be, if it were applied fairly. Those who call for a…

— Bob Scales

I was 20, and my reality was that people either went to college full-time, or they were draftable. The dear friends that I went…

— Joe Walsh

“The approach this nation has taken to waging war since Vietnam (absolving the people from meaningful involvement), along with the way it organizes its…

— Andrew J. Bacevich