Time Quote by Thanhha Lai

“Saigon was loved precisely because it was so unlovable - its squalor, its biblical, Job-like misfortune, its imminent, hoevering doom.”

— Tatjana Soli

“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

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

— Michael Herr

Saigon, U.S.A. aptly documents the birth of a new American community, uprooted in the aftermath of war and forever torn apart by the wounds…

— Nguyen Qui Duc

“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

“Saigon in utter darkness this last night of the war. A gestating monster. Her letter to Linh had been simple: I love you more…

— Tatjana Soli

“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

“Vietnam has the opportunity in the future to show the world how to conquer falsehood with Truth.”

— VD

“One morning in Saigon she'd asked what it was all about 'This whole war,' she said, 'why was everybody so mad at everybody else?'…

— Tim O'Brien

“My dad once told me that his biggest challenge after returning from Vietnam had been coming to terms with his own callousness. He’d made…

— Tucker Elliot

“If you were AWOL when your company was going back into combat you might as well keep going because your own officers would blow…

— Charles Brandt

“The memory of war was fading into the past as a nightmare vanishes with the dawn; soon it would lie outside the experience of…

— Arthur C Clarke