Vietnam

A Gay VietnamVeteranöThey gave me a medal for killing two men, and a discharge for loving one.

—Matlovich, Leonard

   We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them helpöbecause the government of Vietnam is Communist. And perhaps because they won.

—Gellhorn, Martha Ellis

This is not an invasion of  Vietnam.

—Nixon, Richard M(ilhous)

Patriotism inVietnamtook the communist road because it was the only one available. It had the appeal of a dream, a dream of social justice.

—Nguyen, Xuan Oanh

I used to seeVietnam as a war rather than a country.

—Pilger,John

The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since theVietnam War.

—White, Edmund

I went toVietnam to take the train: people have done stranger things in that country.

—Theroux, Paul Edward

To win inVietnam, we will have to exterminate a nation.

—Spock, Dr Benjamin McLane

   My mother thinks Vietnam is somewhere near Panama.

—Anonymous

Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place.

—Kennedy,John F(itzgerald)

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

—Herr, Michael

All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.

—Herr, Michael