When I took command in Vietnam, I gave great emphasis to food and medical care - and to the mail.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.
Vietnam helped me to look at the horror and terror in the hearts of people and realize how we can't aim guns and set booby traps for people we have never spoken a word to. That kind of impersonal violence mystifies me.
Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.
Frankly, I would not have made any difference in Vietnam, but much more is what difference it would have made in me.
Majored in staying out of Vietnam.
Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.
I'm from the Vietnam generation. I didn't serve.
I went to Vietnam; it was my first assignment as a reporter for the UPI, and I never could get away from the war.
Anyone graduating from medical school in 1966 had first to fulfill military service before launching a career. Fiercely opposed to the Vietnam War, I sought to avoid it through an assignment to the Public Health Service.
During Vietnam, I was in college, enjoying my student deferment. The government wisely felt that, in my case, military service was less important than completing my studies to prepare me for my chosen career: comedian.