Bad thing Quote by Whit Stillman

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

— Jim Webb

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

— Richard Holbrooke

We had the great good fortune and shortcomings of character that marked every generation that had never seen war.

— Joshua Ferris

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things.…

— Michael Ignatieff

“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

It's not right to say that our loss in Vietnam turned out to be a gain. But lessons were learned. And they were the…

— Tom Clancy

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

In the Sixties, there was a big resistance to the Vietnam War. People began reinterpreting all American history as a series of misadventures and…

— Dinesh D'Souza

Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.

— Walter Dean Myers

“Will this generation be able to turn things around and learn a valuable lesson from all of this? I hope so, but I have…

— Aaron B. Powell

Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I am shocked that we seemed to have learned nothing, absolutely nothing, from Vietnam.

— Michael Dirda