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Everybody who went to Vietnam carries his or her own version of the war. Only 10 percent engaged in combat; the American elephant, pursuing the Vietnamese grasshopper, was extraordinarily heavy with logistical support.

— Pete Hamill

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Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

— R. Lee Ermey

War is war. Vietnam is no different from the Crusades.

— Michael Cimino

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

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

— Robert Jay Lifton

I'm a Vietnam veteran. I was here when there was no public support, not just for the effort in Vietnam, for the mission in Vietnam, but for our men and women in uniform.

— Michael Mullen

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.

— Nguyen Cao Ky

The object of my relationship with Vietnam has been to heal the wounds that exist, particularly among our veterans, and to move forward with a positive relationship,... Apparently some in the Vietnamese government don't want to do that and that's their decision.

— Ho Chi Minh

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

— William Westmoreland

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

America owed its military renaissance in the 1980s and 1990s to Vietnam. Veterans like Norman Schwartzkopf, Colin Powell, Alfred Grey, Charles Krulak, and Wesley Clark returned home angry and ashamed at their defeat and rebuilt all-volunteer, professional armed forces from the ground up.

— Michael Ignatieff

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