Anyone who isn't confused really doesn't understand the situation.
Edward R. MurrowStichwörter: indochina viet-nam vietnam-war
We live in the post-trash, man. It'll be a real short eon. Down in the ectoplasmic circuitry where humanity's leaders are all linked up unconsciously with each other and with the masses, man, there's been this unanimous worldwide decision to trash the planet and get on to a new one.
Denis JohnsonStichwörter: peace vietnam-war environmentalist
Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.
Don DeLilloStichwörter: war autobiography vietnam vietnam-war korean-war korea robert-mccrum
We were children of the 1950s and John Kennedy's young stalwarts of the early 1960s. He told the world that Americans would "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship" in the defense of freedom. We were the down payment on that costly contract, but the man who signed it was not there when we fulfilled his promise. John Kennedy waited for us on a hill in Arlington National Cemetery, and in time we came by the thousands to fill those slopes with out white marble markers and to ask on the murmur of the wind if that was truely the future he had envisioned for us.
Joseph L. GallowayStichwörter: vietnam-war military-history
The Americans won't win. They're not fighting for their homeland. They just want to be good. In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.
Denis JohnsonStichwörter: america vietnam-war
The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in chanting about death, the only real god they knew.
Karl MarlantesStichwörter: music death vietnam-war
You will kill ten of us, we will kill one of you, but in the end, you will tire of it first.
Hồ Chí MinhStichwörter: vietnam-war nlf nva viet-cong
Don't step off the road --- There might be another one!
James McGarrityStichwörter: vietnam-war ptsd checkpoint-one-four roadside-bomb survivor-guilt well-after-war
A president who is burdened with a failed and unpopular war, and who has lost the trust of the country, simply can no longer govern. He is destined to become as much a failure as his war.
Glenn GreenwaldStichwörter: politics war united-states george-w-bush governance iraq-war vietnam-war lyndon-b-johnson
But this too is true: stories can save us.
Tim O'BrienStichwörter: vietnam-war the-things-they-carried tim-obrien
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