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After four or five different wars, I grew weary of that work, partly because in an open war, open to coverage, as Vietnam was, it's not that difficult, really.

— Morley Safer

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

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

— Robert Jay Lifton

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

— Craig Venter

I felt just overwhelmed by input: the Vietnam war and the collapse of the '60s and the proliferation of media' it just felt like everything was too much to handle and you just tuned out.

— Richard Hell

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

— George McGovern

The conclusion that many uniformed military came away from Vietnam with was that political interference, dominance of strategy and even tactics were a very bad way to conduct a war, and that indeed, if that was going to be our practice, that we shouldn't wage conflict again.

— Robert McFarlane

What is astonishing about the social history of the Vietnam war is not how many people avoided it, but how many could not and did not.

— John Gregory Dunne

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.

— Marshall McLuhan

I wrote a novel about the combat experiences I didn't have in Vietnam.

— Tracy Kidder

✗Opposing Perspectives

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

— George McGovern

I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.

— Neil Sheehan