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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.

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

I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.

When I was a boy we didn't wake up with Vietnam and have Cyprus for lunch and the Congo for dinner.

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

In the 1980s, Vietnam emerged in our culture as a legitimate and compelling topic for discussion rather than something to be hidden in shame.

Vietnam was really an idealistic thing to stop the spread of communism, which, incidentally, it did. It was a pretty costly way to do it, but it achieved its goal.