My father is American and deserted the Vietnam War.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
When my dad was in Vietnam, we lost a parent for a year. Thank God we didn't lose a parent for good.
I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.
I carry the memories of the ghosts of a place called Vietnam - the people of Vietnam, my fellow soldiers.
The only important thing I have to say is that my father never fought against his country.
I want to be a soldier as my father was.
I returned to Vietnam in '94, and even then, all those decades later, walking around that place, I remained afraid. And, in some ways, rightly so.
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.
My father was in the First World War.
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.