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All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.

Working-class, blue-collar guys who volunteered for Vietnam were ascribed certain political beliefs. It's time that this was redressed. It had nothing to do with politics. Once these men got to Vietnam, it was a matter of survival.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

It is a fact that the Left routinely resists, then as now: Americans fought and died in Vietnam for freedom, just as they are doing in Iraq and Afghanistan today. Whatever mistakes generals and policymakers have made along the way cannot detract from that essential truth - which should be a part of any reliable history.

A generation ago, American war planners made the mistake of believing that short-term Communist sympathies would unite China and Vietnam. We were wrong, and it tragically misshaped our policy in Vietnam.

I carry the memories of the ghosts of a place called Vietnam - the people of Vietnam, my fellow soldiers.

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.

In the 1960s, there was a point, 1968, '69, when there was a very strong antiwar movement against the war in Vietnam. But it's worth remembering that the war in Vietnam started - an outright war started in 1962.

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.