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As a Nobel Peace laureate, I, like most people, agonize over the use of force. But when it comes to rescuing an innocent people from tyranny or genocide, I’ve never questioned the justification for resorting...

—José Ramos-Horta

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My definition of an intellectual is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture without thinking of the Lone Ranger” – Billy Connolly

—Sherry Marie

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We don’t want to leave in the wrong way like we did in Vietnam.

—James Rice

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In a world where the most consequential things happen by chance, or from unfathomable causes, you don’t look to reason for help. You consort with mysteries… They have been killed in place of you –...

—Tobias Wolff

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Running to join them, he felt overwhelming joy. It was as if he were coming home from a lashing winter storm to the warmth of his living room. The sky seemed brilliantly blue and clear,...

—Karl Marlantes

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The first ring glowed in the distance, lit up by consumerism that was brought to Jakarta courtesy of western cultures and Christian nations, and it influenced impoverished Muslims in the third ring, who wore Manchester...

—Tucker Elliot

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He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company

—Michael Connelly

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In the emergency of growing up, we all need heroes. But the father I grew up with was no hero to me, not then. He was too wounded in the head, too endlessly and terribly...

—Tom Bissell

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Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.

—Don DeLillo

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I think that Vietnam, many of us who served in Vietnam thought that was very wasteful, and to what end? To what end? What were we really there for? What were we really fighting for?

—Richard Armitage

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Mellas continued to look at the wallet, saying nothing. Hawke, who had been watching Mellas through the steam that rose from his pear-can coffee mug, handed Mellas the cup. Mellas gave a brief smile and...

—Karl Marlantes

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My dad once told me that his biggest challenge after returning from Vietnam had been coming to terms with his own callousness. He’d made a deal with the war and traded his humanity for a...

—Tucker Elliot

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When I was a Marine in the hospital during Vietnam, I would have died without being given blood so I know first-hand the importance of having blood available. I always donate and I am very...

—Jim Oyster

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Historians partial to Kennedy see matters differently from those partial to L.B.J. Vietnam has become a point of contention in defending and criticizing J.F.K.

—Robert Dallek

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If they didn’t want to know, they shouldn’t have asked.

—James Webb

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I spent half my childhood trying to be like my dad. True for most boys, I think. It turns with adolescence. The last thing I wanted was to be like my dad. It took becoming...

—Tucker Elliot

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Gun up,’ he whispered to Skosh. The word went back to invisible kids lying on the jungle floor. ‘Set it in here,’ Mellas whispered to Conman. ‘Put Vancouver with his machine gun one-eighty from it.”He...

—Karl Marlantes

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We obviously don’t live in a perfect world. If we did, then my dad would never have volunteered for Vietnam so he could use the GI Bill to pay for college, Uncle Google would have...

—Tucker Elliot

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The American invasion did not succeed in Vietnam, and will never succeed in Iraq.

—Mohammed Aldouri

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It was my view then, and still is, that you don’t make war without knowing why. Knowledge of course, is always imperfect, but it seemed to me that when a nation goes to war it...

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Of the things I had not known when I started out, I think the most important was the degree to which the legacy of the McCarthy period still lived. It had been almost seven years...

—David Halberstam

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Cope? Adapt? Uh, no. These are military kids. They roll with it. I once asked a new student, ‘See any familiar faces?’ She pointed out various kids and replied, ‘Seattle, Tampa, Okinawa, New Jersey.’ For...

—Tucker Elliot

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Mellas was transported outside himself, beyond himself. It was as if his mind watched eveything coolly while his body raced wildly with passion and fear. He was frightened beyond any fear he had ever known....

—Karl Marlantes

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I was too young for Korea and too old for Vietnam.

—Stephen Ambrose

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Maybe the Americans should have brought baseballs instead of bombs.

—Ann E. Burg

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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;...

—Robert Koger

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I’m skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty...

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This is simply more of the same smears and sleaze against a decorated Vietnam veteran from more of the same serial liars who disgraced themselves in 2004. It’s too bad the truth doesn’t matter to...

—David Wade

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The only thing worse than losing hope is to be the reason someone else loses hope.

—Tucker Elliot

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I’d rather go to Vietnam than get married.

—Joe Namath

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The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.

—Stephen Ambrose

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Two thousand people a day were being murdered in Vietnam in a terrorist war, an official terrorist war.

—Bill Ayers

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This story draws together how small a world we live in. He could have easily died in Vietnam; I could have died in Vietnam. Instead, we met by chance.

—Jim Sullivan

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I would wish this book could take the form of a plea for everlasting peace, a plea from one who knows… Or it would be fine to confirm the odd beliefs about war: it’s horrible,...

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If my name were Nubby Blues, I wouldn’t be a jazz musician, I’d be a disabled Vietnam vet on welfare.

—Jarod Kintz

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I’m not sure I ever met an American teacher in Korea that hadn’t volunteered at an orphanage at least once—even our resident idiot could be surprisingly decent on occasion—but I’ve also visited foreign countries where...

—Tucker Elliot

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We are satisfied with the good momentum of development of China-Vietnam relations.

—Kong Quan

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Người Việt Nam đẻ ra là tự động biết sợ ma, sợ mơ thấy lửa, sợ gò má cao, sợ nốt ruồi ở tuyến lệ, sợ ăn thịt chó đầu tháng, sợ ăn thịt vịt...

—Thuận

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Too many things have changed. Too much time has passed. I’m different now, a man with a pocketful of unconnected but terribly vivid memories. I was looking to dredge up what I’d long forgotten. Most...

—Andrew X. Pham

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If one morning in the Spring, a stranger came and said to me, Your mother, father, brother, sister, uncle, lover, friend, is dead. From a b-52, napalm bombing, search and destroy mission, air attack, Tet...

—Lê Thi

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I detested their blind, thoughtless, automatic acquiescence to it all, their simpleminded patriotism, their prideful ignorance, their love-it-or-leave-it platitudes, how they were sending me off to a war they didn’t understand and didn’t want to...

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This reminds me so much of Vietnam.

—James Clark

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It was radicals like you and your father that hijacked your faith, hijacked a few planes, and made thousands of children orphans in a single day. You pretend my country beats you because you are...

—Tucker Elliot

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Hell had been his Vietnam. It had stamped its mark on him for all eternity, and no amount of denial or self-imposed ignorance was going to change it. Ever.

—Joe Schreiber

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Both China and Vietnam have realized that sustainable economic development is very important in their relations.

—Wu Jianmin

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We didn’t lose Vietnam. We quit Vietnam.

—Alexander Haig

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for years now there had been no country here but the war.

—Michael Herr

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In battle, in a war, a soldier sees only a tiny fragment of what is available to be seen. The soldier is not a photographic machine. He is not a camera. He registers, so to...

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The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on [them].

—J. Fulbright

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There’s an article about Chicago closing dozens of schools and I should probably read it because it seems important and relevant—but to be honest, the headline about the professor in Florida telling students to ‘stomp...

—Tucker Elliot

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