Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Tags: america communism vietnam vietnam-war bombs airplanes communists
This is how I see humanity. When enemies come to your country, destroy the countryside and your village, kill your countrymen, your comrades and the defenseless wounded, you have to kill them and defend your compatriots; that is true humanity.
Tom MangoldTags: humanity war warfare vietnam-war
Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.
Thanhhà LạiTags: life learning classic hope vietnam-war hope-and-despair vietnamese insideoutandbackagain childrensbooks
He had not understood that we were combat photographers, and our jobs were as relevant and justifiable—or as irrelevant and unjustifiable—as anyone’s in Vietnam.
Nick MillsTags: war vietnam-war
Yea though I walk through the Valley of the shadow of Death, I shall fear no evil...because I am the meanest motherfucker in the Valley.
Bruce H. NortonTags: motivational vietnam vietnam-war
Combat is fast, unfair, cruel, and dirty. It is meant to be that way so that the terrible experience is branded into the memory of those who are fortunate enough to survive. It is up to those survivors to ensure that the experience is recorded and passed along to those who just might want to try it.
Bruce H. NortonTags: vietnam marines vietnam-war combat military-history foce-recon
It don't mean nothin
Bruce H. NortonTags: vietnam-war
None of us laughed at Helen. Maybe because in 1970 we listened more to new ideas, however sentimental or foolish they sound all these years later in the harsh light of the millennium’s end. We wanted to find new answers for old questions, or we just thought there were new answers. And even with all the death that came daily, the death that would come to our gathering in the meadow, life in America felt as if it were being recast, reshaped, even redeemed by some transcendent thing.
Scott LaxTags: 1970 vietnam-war homefront-novel
The brave men and women, who serve their country and as a result, live constantly with the war inside them, exist in a world of chaos. But the turmoil they experience isn’t who they are; the PTSD invades their minds and bodies.
Robert KogerTags: military mystery vietnam mental-illness vietnam-war veterans posttraumatic-stress-disorder dea fbi cia ptsd post-traumatic-stress-disorder combat-ptsd
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