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Apr 30, 2015 · The Vietnam War in 40 Quotes by James M. Lindsay Last month, I did a series of posts commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the arrival of U.S. combat troops in Vietnam on March 8, 1965.
I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. John F. Kerry. Military, War, Struggle. 59 Copy quote. Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam. Marshall McLuhan.
Apr 30, 2015 · Today marks another significant date in the Vietnam War: the fortieth anniversary of the Fall of Saigon. To mark that anniversary, here are forty quotes that tell the story of the Vietnam War ...
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John Gregory Dunne. The truth is that I oppose the Iraq war, just as I opposed the Vietnam War, because these two conflicts have weakened the U.S. and diminished our standing in the world and our national security. George McGovern. I was a conscientious objector during the Vietnam War. Lawrence Wright.
- “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights?
- “But this too is true: stories can save us.” ― Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried.
- “Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.” ― Edward R. Murrow.
- “Country music was the most segregated kind of music in America, where even whites played jazz and even blacks sang in the opera. Something like country music was what lynch mobs must have enjoyed while stringing up their black victims.
The Vietnam War was arguably the most traumatic experience for the United States in the twentieth century. That is indeed a grim distinction in a span that included two world wars, the assassinations of two presidents and the resignation of another, the Great Depression, the Cold War, racial unrest, and the drug and crime waves.
Apr 30, 2015 · The Vietnam War in 40 Quotes. An important anniversary...and a look back... by James M. Lindsay. “Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to ...
