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I feel like I came from a generation where... We didn't have Vietnam. We didn't have World War II. Nothing cultural was thrust upon us to make men out of us, so you're kind of free to not grow up that way if you don't want to.

— Greg Mottola

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

World War II brought the Greatest Generation together. Vietnam tore the Baby Boomers apart.

— Jim Webb

I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.

— Alexander Haig

I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.

— Al Franken

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.

— Michael Ignatieff

I was proud of the youths who opposed the war in Vietnam because they were my babies.

— Benjamin Spock

I was born during the war and grew up in a time of rationing. We didn't have anything. It's influenced the way I look at the world.

— Vivienne Westwood

The World War II generation believed the United States could do anything - anything... And Vietnam was a shattering experience for everyone.

— Richard Holbrooke

✗Opposing Perspectives

Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

— Michael Herr

Vietnam was the defining event for my generation. It spilled over into all facets of American life - into music, into the pulpits, in churches of our country. It spilled over into the city streets, police forces. And even if you were born late in the generation, Vietnam was still part of your childhood.

— Tim O'Brien

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.

— Phillip Noyce