Quotes about Vietnam war

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They tell me the letters I write to you and leave here at this memorial are waking others up to the fact that there is s — Bernard Edelman, Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
I’ve seen a lot of stuff… maybe I’ve seen too much. I see most humans in a bad light because I’ve seen what they can do, — Rebecca McNutt, Smog City
As modern neurobiologists point out, the repetition of the traumatic experience in the flashbacks can be itself re-traum — Cathy Caruth, Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative and History
When I was last in Paris I was dirt poor, hiding from the Vietnam War. One night, in an old church, I considered taking — Philip Schultz, Failure
The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war inside them, exist in a w — Robert Koger, Death's Revenge
He was telling war stories. The funny, innocuous ones that made everyone forget that war could leave you without fingers — Sabrina Fedel, Leaving Kent State
Some people think 1963's a long time ago; when a dead American in the jungle was an event, a grim thrilling novelty. It — Michael Herr, Dispatches
They stared at each other. Every ocean, every river, every minute they had walked together was in their gaze. He said no — Paullina Simons, The Summer Garden
Stories can save us. — Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Stories are for joining the past to the future. — Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
What stories can do, I guess, is make things present. — Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
Know what an optimist is, Major? A pessimist without much experience. — Nicholas Proffitt, The Embassy House
Dare I ask Mao and his Communist Party?I fear my throat will be cut into two pieces.In the name of revolution, for thoug — Zoë S. Roy, Calls Across the Pacific
If wars create vast sums of money for the global elite, is it possible the Soviets, the Viet Cong and Muslim extremists — James Morcan, The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy
A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs — Sherry Marie Gallagher, Boulder Blues: A Tale of the Colorado Counterculture
The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they j — Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke
Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airp — Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Breakfast of Champions
It’s not that I had more important things to do or that I didn’t want to help with whatever problems were interfering wi — Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
As his boots walked towards the old station, he felt as though he were hallucinating. Scary apprehension increased the b — Jaime Allison Parker, The Delta Highway
I tell the squad a joke: "Stop me if you're heard this. There was a Marine of nuts and bolts, half robot--weird but true — Gustav Hasford, The Short-Timers