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Saturday 20th of April 2024

Vietnam War The American soldiers were brave, but courage is not enough. David did not kill Goliath just because he was brave. Gen. Võ Nguyên Giáp commander of People's Army of Vietnam © 2017 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War How do you ask a man to be the last man to die in Vietnam? How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? John Kerry, 1971 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War In recent years, the prudence we learned from our involvement in Indochina has been widely derided as “Vietnam syndrome.” If by Vietnam syndrome we mean the belief that the U.S. should never again engage in (a) military interventions in foreign civil wars without clear objectives and a clear exit strategy, (b) “nation building” in countries about whose history and culture we are ignorant, and (c) sacri- ficing our children when our lives, our way of life, or “government of, by, and for the people” are not directly threatened, then we should never get over Vietnam syndrome. It's not an illness, it's a vaccination. Karl Marlantes, Wall Street Journal, June 3-4, 2017 © 2017 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War It became necessary to destroy the town to save it. Unidentified US Army major quoted in Ben Tre, Vietnam, February 8, 1968 © 2021 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War My country, right or wrong slogan of the war's supporters © 2017 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War No more Vietnams! enduring antiwar slogan © 2017 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War One aspect of the conflict, by the way, that I will never ever countenance is that we drafted the lowest-income level of America, and the highest-income level found a doctor that would say that they had a bone spur. That is wrong. That is wrong. If we are going to ask every American to serve, every American should serve. John McCain © 2017 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War Vietnam was a place where the elite went as reporters, not as soldiers. Almost as many people from Harvard won Pulitzer Prizes in Vietnam as died there. David Halberstam © 2017 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War We joked and ridiculed these medals and ribbons. We called them “gedunk medals,” and in the photographs I retain … only the career types were wearing the ribbons on their daily uniforms. A Vietnam-era Naval officer quoted in Joel Best's Everyone's a Winner — “Gedunk” is naval slang for a ship's store that sells cigarettes, candy, toiletries, etc. © 2015 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War When I was going to high school, when I was going to college Vietnam was like the big deal. Like you have to leave college and go fight. And I said, “excuse me?” Donald trump © 2016 Kwiple.com
Vietnam War Without a front, flanks, or rear, we fought a formless war against a formless enemy, who evaporated like the morning mists, only to materialize in some unexpected place. It was a haphazard, episodic sort of combat. Most of the time nothing happened. But when something did, it happened instantaneously and without warning. Philip Caputo © 2017 Kwiple.com
 
Vietnam War You know, if you're young, and in this era, and if you have any guilt about not having gone to Vietnam, we have our own Vietnam – it's called the dating game. Dating is like being in Vietnam. You're the equivalent of a soldier going over to Vietnam. Donald Trump, on avoiding VD in the era of AIDS © 2019 Kwiple.com