vietnam war quotes
But in the face of United States aggression they have risen up, united as one man. But I think I wound up going for Nixon. During the Cold War, America undertook serious military cuts only once: after the election of Richard Nixon, during the Vietnam War. Numbers have dehumanized us.
"Mission With LeMay: My Story". He told the world that Americans would "pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship" in the defense of freedom. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. Should I become President...I will not risk American lives...by permitting any other nation to drag us into the wrong war at the wrong place at the wrong time through an unwise commitment that is unwise militarily, unnecessary to our security and unsupported by our allies. My dad was a civil rights lawyer, and he was actually defending conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War. When the women's liberation movement began, when people began protesting against the Vietnam War, civil rights movement, at the beginning of those movements, the majority of the country was not with them, did not believe in the basic principles of any of those philosophies. So comic books have always been a reflection of the times we live in. Ha. He started the process of driving the rural population into what were called 'strategic hamlets,' essentially concentration camps, where people were surrounded by barbed wire, supposedly to protect them from the guerillas who the U.S. government knew perfectly well they supported. "No More Vietnams". I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. “Why should they ask me to put on a uniform and go 10,000 miles from home and drop bombs and bullets on Brown people in Vietnam while so-called Negro people in Louisville are treated like dogs and denied simple human rights? "Personal Quotes/ Biography". We are the richest people in the world and they are among the poorest.
War New People Survival Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. Institute Professor Department of Linguistics and Philosophy Noam Chomsky, Noam Chomsky (2010). It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. And explosions going up. For me, the passing of time has provided me with subjects I never had before. Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods. “Well, Lyndon,” Mister Sam answered, “you may be right and they may be every bit as intelligent as you say, but I’d feel a whole lot better about them if just one of them had run for sheriff once.” It is my favorite story in the book, for it underlines the weakness of the Kennedy team, the difference between intelligence and wisdom, between the abstract quickness and verbal fluency which the team exuded, and the true wisdom, which is the product of hard-won, often bitter experience. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. How do you ask a man to be the last man to die for a mistake? Johnson Reelection Blog Post by James M. Lindsay. But even at those odds, you will lose and I will win. I covered the Vietnam War. I learned that patriotism includes protest, not just military service. When I volunteered for the draft as a 20-year-old, mischievous guy at the height of the Vietnam War, most thought I was destined to pass from this earth early! Millions of chicks a year were dying from an unknown toxic chemical in their feed, and I had the responsibility of isolating and determining the structure of this chemical. The Korean War made Japan. Dalton Trumbo (2007). We are not about to send American boys 9 or 10 thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.
All the wrong people remember Vietnam. When I grew up, in Taiwan, the Korean War was seen as a good war, where America protected Asia. Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. I was a boy; I didn't find a way to write about it until many years later. That was 1961.”, “You can't imagine what the interior of sixteen or eighteen cubic feet is like with all of these people screaming, and yelling, and talking, and howling. The pulverizing destruction of a tiny nation in the name of self-determination, and the related barbarization of the once proud American Army, were gruesome and shameful ways to learn the nature of disaster. One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans. Ordinary intra-mural and extra-mural leaking, to such duly constituted bodies as Congress, was getting out of hand. Kennedy authorized the use of napalm, chemical warfare, to destroy the ground cover and crops. I was 20, and my reality was that people either went to college full-time, or they were draftable. – Lyndon B. Johnson But I have said it once and I will say it again. And since the '70s, cinema has gone almost entirely in the direction of spectacle and escapism and superhero films. Welcome back. Votes: 1 George H. W. Bush When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business. It's a song about frustration. I was a surf bum wannabe. 1961 Attributed remark to journalist James Reston, following Kennedy's meeting with Khrushchev, Jun. I got involved in the political arena in college, protesting the Vietnam War, and became friends with some of the activists at the University of Hawaii. I thought he could get us out of the Vietnam War quickly. You just can't imagine the chaos that goes through your head.
We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers. The real enemy of my people is here.
That was also true during the Vietnam War for draft resisters. That should have been a warning.”, “Grit and tenacity will take you far in life, but love and forgiveness will carry you to the finish line.”, “Earlier that night, after dinner, I had sung a few folk songs for Paul.
What can one say about a country where such an idea can even be considered? This chemical has since received widespread attention, especially because it was part of the herbicide 2,4,5-T, or Agent Orange, then being used to defoliate forests in the Vietnam War. It's as if someone has dumped rubies from heaven. Book by Richard M. Nixon, 1985.
1971. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for 'Virginia Woolf' in the middle of the Vietnam War, I said, 'I hope we can use our art for peace and love.'.
ANONYMOUS, Anti-Vietnam War slogan 128 likes You can kill ten of my men for every one I kill of yours. But right now they are magic-red ribbons flying over our heads, weaving against the pink sky, dancing up there with Mozart.”, “We are the unwilling, led by the unqualified, doing the unnecessary, for the ungrateful.”, “For example, grown men who sneer at the idea of unicorns will tearfully testify to the existence of an even rarer, more mythical species. So the Kennedy liberals determined that they had to be thrown out.
There never was a good war or a bad revolution. We seem bent upon saving the Vietnamese from Ho Chi Minh, even if we have to kill them and demolish their country to do it....I do not intend to remain silent in the face of what I regard as a policy of madness which, sooner or later, will envelop my son and American youth by the millions for years to come. Before the Civil War, Canada was at the top of the underground railroad. Philadelphia reflected the national turmoil over race and the Vietnam War, often exploding on my watch. I remember the lies that were told, the lives that were lost - and the shock when, twenty years after the war ended, former Defense Secretary Robert S. McNamara admitted he knew it was a mistake all along. I saw courage both in the Vietnam War and in the struggle to stop it. "- P49”, “For it was the horrible reality of the ever increasing death and devastation in Vietnam that galvanized growing numbers of Americans to demand an end to the terror. Interview with Andrew Smith, www.theguardian.com.
In order to be good, they just have to fight awhile and then leave.”, “And in this moment, I realize one reason it's so great to have a best friend is sometimes, like right now, Cal and I are thinking the very same thing.”, “Much of my early career was spent working with two of the most toxic chemicals ever discovered, dioxin and aflatoxin. I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. Old people still sit on their porches and talk, but their conversations aren't sprinkled with laughter anymore. The final terror would come to be if ending the war did not lead to fundamental changes in the American outlook, in American society, and hence in American foreign policy.”, “History will write itself in people's memories, and as long as those memories live on, we can have faith that we can do better.”, A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. It passed the US Senate 88 to 2. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
I remember being a kid and the Vietnam War was huge and looking at Watergate. In the '50s, a lot of stories were built around radiation and the proliferation of new technology. Contrary to a lot of mythology, Kennedy was one of the hawks in the administration to the very last minute. We savaged them, though they had never hurt us, and we cannot find it in our hearts, our honor, to give them help-because the government of Vietnam is Communist. And that is why we didn't make it. This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart. The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
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