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Back then when Chomsky and Herman wrote, the left, myself among them, all knew that something terrible was happening in Vietnam, though most now claim to remember otherwise.

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.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

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.

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

Forty years ago this country went down a rabbit hole in Vietnam and millions died. I fear we're going down a rabbit hole once again - and if people can stop and think and reflect on some of the ideas and issues in this movie, perhaps I've done some damn good here!

War is by no means something glamorous, and I don't think that should ever be forgotten.

A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.

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

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