Average Quote by Warren Farrell

It is unconscionable that 10,000 boys have died in Vietnam. If 10,000 American women had mind enough they could end the war, if they…

— Jeannette Rankin

The men and women who served during the Vietnam War are often overlooked.

— Conor Lamb

“For these reasons the Vietnam-era army (unlike the armies that had fought in World War II or Korea) consisted disproportionately of the poor, minority…

— James T. Patterson

More than half the combat deaths in Vietnam occurred after Richard Nixon was elected on a promise to bring the war to an end,…

— Raul Grijalva

“Roughly 80 percent of American soldiers in Vietnam were from poor or working-class backgrounds. Neither in college nor in graduate school—where most students received…

— James T. Patterson

The majority of them give the impression of being men who have been drafted into the job during a period of martial law and…

— Alan Brien

The POW camps of North Vietnam were packed with Air Force and Naval Academy graduates. The six midshipmen in my Naval Academy class of…

— Jim Webb

The reason why many young people in the Vietnam War era were active was their lives were threatened by the draft and they were…

— Tom Morello

The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

— Andy Rooney

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

— Mark Satin

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

Because conscription appeals to essentially no one, the United States has lived with the All-Volunteer Force since the end of the Vietnam War.

— Jacob Weisberg