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A lot of things that are helping us now come from Vietnam, Korea, World War II, but now it's a whole new world of military losses. Studying us is really important. – Aimee WriglesworthRate it:
African-Americans were on the front lines of every way, from the Spanish-American War, throughout the Revolutionary war, the Civil War, both World Wars, Vietnam, we have paid our dues with our blood and our toil, so America owes African Americans much more than they are willing to acknowledge. – Gwen RagsdaleRate it:
All anyone wants to do is ask me about the Holocaust or Nazis, and Republican Party is setting me up because they’re a bunch of war criminals like the ones who sent us to Vietnam. – Arthur JonesRate it:
All anyone wants to do is ask me about the Holocaust or Nazis, and Republican Party of Wisconsin is setting me up because they’re a bunch of war criminals like the ones who sent us to Vietnam. – Arthur JonesRate it:
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars) – Gerald R. FordRate it:
As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. (On the Vietnam War) – Richard Milhous NixonRate it:
August 2nd, 2006 is just a taste of what war is. We lost two people that day. There are companies, battalions that have lost half, most of their unit. You look at the numbers from WW2 or Vietnam, it's astounding. – Jonny KimRate it:
Because of the pure evil that happened yesterday, theres a 75-year-old man, whos a father, a grandfather, a Vietnam War veteran, who was killed. – Pasco County Sheriff Chris NoccoRate it:
Chambers wife, Lorraine Heist-Chambers told WashingtonsWJLA-TV.This is something that he needs to do every year and I support him for it. No matter what it takes, we get out here. VETERANS UNEMPLOYMENT DURING CORONAVIRUS OUTPACES REST OF US Chambers began saluting motorcyclists for long periods back in 2002 when he was in his 20s during Rolling Thunder, an annualprotestand gathering dedicated to service members that were abandoned after the Vietnam War. The veteran hasnt missed the event in over two decades. In previous years, he would hold a salute for between three and five hours as hundreds of thousands of motorcycles drove by, according to the station. The specific event -- which highlighted veteran suicide for the first time this year -- isnow calledRolling To Remember. While the Memorial Day weekend ride was canceled in D.C. due to the coronavirus, more than one hundred riders still showed up to watch Chambers. He reportedly held his position without food, water or bathroom breaks. I couldnt do it. Im looking for a bathroom. – Fredericksburgresident Robert HallRate it:
During the Vietnam War Hanoi always drew a distinction between the peace-loving American people and the imperialist American government, there was a basis for future reconciliation. – Carlyle ThayerRate it:
He's served in World War II( in both the European and Pacific Theaters), negotiated for the U.S. in the Cold War, fought in Vietnam, worked in Congress, and led the space program. – David FerrieroRate it:
Historically, military responses to domestic protests have resulted in violations of Americans' civil rights, and even in the case of the Kent State protests of the Vietnam War, tragic deaths, in short, I fervently believe the military should not be utilized in such scenarios other than as a last resort and only when all other assets have been expended. – Defense Christopher MillerRate it:
I didn’t dodge the draft, i just avoided it. The Vietnam War turned out wrong, and the war was wrong. It was terrible. The boys shouldn’t have been there. So I made the right decision. After all, I’m still the winner. – Muhammad AliRate it:
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 WestmorelandRate it:
I grew up as a kid at their age watching his fights, i knew about his stance during the Vietnam War. ... I just wanted them to know more about him. – Craig DavidsonRate it:
I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams. – Lyndon B. JohnsonRate it:
I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War) – Charles De GaulleRate it:
I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War – Richard Milhous NixonRate it:
I'm old enough to remember the war in Vietnam, i am very fearful of the United States continuing to do what it has done in past -- the United States overthrew a democratically elected government in Chile, and in Brazil, and in Guatemala. – Bernie SandersRate it:
I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant. – William FullbrightRate it:
If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense! – Osho, My Way: The Way of The White CloudsRate it:
It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate. – George McGovernRate it:
It was specific, really, to the very tumultuous times that were going on in the United States. In the early '70s — in 1970, 1971 — it was actually the worst and most violent time, cities were on fire and the Vietnam War was finally ending, and titanic struggles had forced them [the government] to stop doing this [after] it had been going on for 15 years or more. Awful. And so, I think there was a yearning for something American. And my song fit the bill. – David AbbottRate it:
Joe was a very brave and courageous reporter and phenomenal storyteller the likes of which they don’t make anymore, we were lucky he came into our lives and made our understanding of the Vietnam War that much more vivid. – Ken BurnsRate it:

A lot of things that are helping us now come from Vietnam, Korea, World War II, but now it's a whole new world of military losses. Studying us is really important.

– Aimee WriglesworthRate it:

African-Americans were on the front lines of every way, from the Spanish-American War, throughout the Revolutionary war, the Civil War, both World Wars, Vietnam, we have paid our dues with our blood and our toil, so America owes African Americans much more than they are willing to acknowledge.

– Gwen RagsdaleRate it:

All anyone wants to do is ask me about the Holocaust or Nazis, and Republican Party is setting me up because they’re a bunch of war criminals like the ones who sent us to Vietnam.

– Arthur JonesRate it:

All anyone wants to do is ask me about the Holocaust or Nazis, and Republican Party of Wisconsin is setting me up because they’re a bunch of war criminals like the ones who sent us to Vietnam.

– Arthur JonesRate it:

As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. (On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars)

– Gerald R. FordRate it:

As this long and difficult war ends, I would like to address a few special words to ... the American people Your steadfastness in supporting our insistence on peace with honor has made peace with honor possible. (On the Vietnam War)

– Richard Milhous NixonRate it:

August 2nd, 2006 is just a taste of what war is. We lost two people that day. There are companies, battalions that have lost half, most of their unit. You look at the numbers from WW2 or Vietnam, it's astounding.

– Jonny KimRate it:

Because of the pure evil that happened yesterday, theres a 75-year-old man, whos a father, a grandfather, a Vietnam War veteran, who was killed.

– Pasco County Sheriff Chris NoccoRate it:

Chambers wife, Lorraine Heist-Chambers told WashingtonsWJLA-TV.This is something that he needs to do every year and I support him for it. No matter what it takes, we get out here. VETERANS UNEMPLOYMENT DURING CORONAVIRUS OUTPACES REST OF US Chambers began saluting motorcyclists for long periods back in 2002 when he was in his 20s during Rolling Thunder, an annualprotestand gathering dedicated to service members that were abandoned after the Vietnam War. The veteran hasnt missed the event in over two decades. In previous years, he would hold a salute for between three and five hours as hundreds of thousands of motorcycles drove by, according to the station. The specific event -- which highlighted veteran suicide for the first time this year -- isnow calledRolling To Remember. While the Memorial Day weekend ride was canceled in D.C. due to the coronavirus, more than one hundred riders still showed up to watch Chambers. He reportedly held his position without food, water or bathroom breaks. I couldnt do it. Im looking for a bathroom.

– Fredericksburgresident Robert HallRate it:

During the Vietnam War Hanoi always drew a distinction between the peace-loving American people and the imperialist American government, there was a basis for future reconciliation.

– Carlyle ThayerRate it:

He's served in World War II( in both the European and Pacific Theaters), negotiated for the U.S. in the Cold War, fought in Vietnam, worked in Congress, and led the space program.

– David FerrieroRate it:

Historically, military responses to domestic protests have resulted in violations of Americans' civil rights, and even in the case of the Kent State protests of the Vietnam War, tragic deaths, in short, I fervently believe the military should not be utilized in such scenarios other than as a last resort and only when all other assets have been expended.

– Defense Christopher MillerRate it:

I didn’t dodge the draft, i just avoided it. The Vietnam War turned out wrong, and the war was wrong. It was terrible. The boys shouldn’t have been there. So I made the right decision. After all, I’m still the winner.

– Muhammad AliRate it:

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 WestmorelandRate it:

I grew up as a kid at their age watching his fights, i knew about his stance during the Vietnam War. ... I just wanted them to know more about him.

– Craig DavidsonRate it:

I knew from the start if I left a woman I really loved -- the Great Society -- in order to fight that bitch of a war in Vietnam then I would lose everything at home. My hopes my dreams.

– Lyndon B. JohnsonRate it:

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)

– Charles De GaulleRate it:

I'd rather use the nuclear bomb...Does that bother you I just want you to think big, Henry, for Christ's sake. to Secretary of State Henry Kissinger on escalating the Vietnam War

– Richard Milhous NixonRate it:

I'm old enough to remember the war in Vietnam, i am very fearful of the United States continuing to do what it has done in past -- the United States overthrew a democratically elected government in Chile, and in Brazil, and in Guatemala.

– Bernie SandersRate it:

I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.

– William FullbrightRate it:

If people become ecstatic the whole society will have to change, because this society is based on misery. If people are blissful you cannot lead them to war -- to Vietnam, or to Egypt, or to Israel. No. Someone who is blissful will just laugh and say: This is nonsense!

– Osho, My Way: The Way of The White CloudsRate it:

It doesn't require any particular bravery to stand on the floor of the Senate and urge our boys in Vietnam to fight harder, and if this war mushrooms into a major conflict and a hundred thousand young Americans are killed, it won't be U. S. Senators who die. It will be American soldiers who are too young to qualify for the senate.

– George McGovernRate it:

It was specific, really, to the very tumultuous times that were going on in the United States. In the early '70s — in 1970, 1971 — it was actually the worst and most violent time, cities were on fire and the Vietnam War was finally ending, and titanic struggles had forced them [the government] to stop doing this [after] it had been going on for 15 years or more. Awful. And so, I think there was a yearning for something American. And my song fit the bill.

– David AbbottRate it:

Joe was a very brave and courageous reporter and phenomenal storyteller the likes of which they don’t make anymore, we were lucky he came into our lives and made our understanding of the Vietnam War that much more vivid.

– Ken BurnsRate it:

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