Vietnam War Quotes

“The war the soldiers tried to stop.”

“We went, we served, we did what we were asked.”

“All we are saying is give peace a chance.”

“I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.”

“It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.”

“George, without doubt, the Army will be blamed for any failures in the Vietnam War.”

“Tonight—to you, the great silent majority of my fellow Americans—I ask for your support.”

“Wikipedia: Vietnam War”

“Where is your data? Give me something I can put in the computer. Don’t give me your poetry.”

“Though it isn't really war
we're sending fifty thousand more
to help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese”

“We all have a share in it, and none of it is good. There are no heroes, just bums. I include myself in that.”

“Wiktionary: Vietnam War”

“All during the Vietnam War, I could feel there was a darkness hanging over the whole world and it lasted for so long.”

“Got in a little hometown jam
So they put a rifle in my hand
Sent me off to a foreign land
To go and kill the yellow man”

“The AK-47 went head-to-head with the M-16, and emerged on the winning side.”

“If we go down that road we might have, within five years, 300,000 men in the rice paddies of the jungles of Viet-Nam and never be able to find them.”

“The message of Vietnam is not that Americans will not take casualties; it is that the American people do not want the lives of their sons and daughters wasted.”

“Like a dark evil cloud
Twelve-hundred came down on him and twenty-nine more
They fought for their lives but most of them died
In the One-Seventy-Third Airborne”

“But also out here in this dreary, difficult war, I think history will record that this may have been one of America's finest hours, because we took a difficult task and we succeeded.”

“There were only two types of people when I came home- those who were against what we did and those who said nothing. I spent the next 17 years saying nothing. I had no one to talk to.”