{"quotes":[{"text":"I remember my father, who had served in Vietnam, once talking to me about how real courage is when you're scared out of your mind but you do what you have to do anyway. I didn't feel very courageous at the moment. I felt like a small mouse in the mouth of a lion.","author":"Anna M. Aquino","tags":["an-ember-in-time","back-to-the-future","christian","church","fiction-novel","in-time","pastors","quantum-leap","science-fiction","scifi","series","time-travel","vietnam","vietnam-war"],"id":1398,"author_id":"Anna+M.+Aquino"},{"text":"This country has not seen and probably will never know the true level of sacrifice of our veterans. As a civilian I owe an unpayable debt to all our military. Going forward let’s not send our servicemen and women off to war or conflict zones unless it is overwhelmingly justifiable and on moral high ground. The men of WWII were the greatest generation, perhaps Korea the forgotten, Vietnam the trampled, Cold War unsung and Iraqi Freedom and Afghanistan vets underestimated. Every generation has proved itself to be worthy to stand up to the precedent of the greatest generation. Going back to the Revolution American soldiers have been the best in the world. Let’s all take a remembrance for all veterans who served or are serving, peace time or wartime and gone or still with us. 11/11/16 May God Bless America and All Veterans.","author":"Thomas M Smith","tags":["afghanistan","airforce","america","army","coast-guard","coastguard","cold-war","combat","courage","freedom","honor","independence","iraq","korea","marine-corp","marines","memorial","memorial-day","military","navy","pj-s","rangers","revolution","revolutionary","sacrifice","seals","selflessness","service","socom","sof","veteran","veterans","vietnam","war"],"id":12582,"author_id":"Thomas+M+Smith"},{"text":"When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves.","author":"William Westmoreland","tags":["soldiers","vietnam "],"id":13236,"author_id":"William+Westmoreland"},{"text":"He [Harry Bosch] defined good company not by the conversation but by the lack of it. When there was no need to talk to feel comfortable, that was the right company.","author":"Michael Connelly","tags":["crime","mystery","vietnam","war"],"id":17400,"author_id":"Michael+Connelly"},{"text":"The Government finally decidedTo wage the war all-out. Defeat is Un-American. And they took to the air,Their women beside themin bouffant hairdosputting nail-polish on thegunship cannon-buttons.And they never came downfor they found,the groundis Pro-Communist. And dirty.And the insects side with the Viet Cong.","author":"Gary Snyder","tags":["america","communism","vietnam","war"],"id":27984,"author_id":"Gary+Snyder"},{"text":"Some people think 1963's a long time ago; when a dead American in the jungle was an event, a grim thrilling novelty. It was spookwar then, adventure; not exactly soldiers, not even advisors yet, but Irregulars, working in remote places with little direct authority, acting out their fantasies with more freedom than most men ever know.","author":"Michael Herr","tags":["adventure","soldiers","vietnam","vietnam-war"],"id":28974,"author_id":"Michael+Herr"},{"text":"I'm skimming across the surface of my own history, moving fast, riding the melt beneath the blades, doing loops and spins, and when I take a high leap into the dark and come down thirty years later, I realize it is as Tim trying to save Timmy's life with a story.","author":"Tim O'Brien","tags":["stories","vietnam","war"],"id":37452,"author_id":"Tim+O%27Brien"},{"text":"I’m not sure I ever met an American teacher in Korea that hadn’t volunteered at an orphanage at least once—even our resident idiot could be surprisingly decent on occasion—but I’ve also visited foreign countries where children are taught hatred. I’ve seen it up close and personal. It’s antithetical to everything I believe in as a teacher. The mandate for all teachers is to instill hope, not fear and hatred.","author":"Tucker Elliot","tags":["education","fear","hatred","hope","indonesia","orphans","students","teaching","vietnam"],"id":39570,"author_id":"Tucker+Elliot"},{"text":"Our purpose in Vietnam is to prevent the success of aggression. It is not conquest, it is not empire, it is not foreign bases, it is not domination. It is, simply put, just to prevent the forceful conquest of South Vietnam by North Vietnam.","author":"Lyndon B. Johnson","tags":["purpose","vietnam","empire "],"id":54583,"author_id":"Lyndon+B.+Johnson"},{"text":"In a world where the most consequential things happen by chance, or from unfathomable causes, you don't look to reason for help. You consort with mysteries... They have been killed in place of you - in your place. You don't think it out, not at the time, not in those terms, but you can't help but feel it, and go on feeling it. It's the close call you have to keep escaping from, the unending doubt that you have a right to your own life. It's the corruption suffered by everyone who lives on, that henceforth they must wonder at the reason and probe its justice.","author":"Tobias Wolff","tags":["death","memoir","vietnam","war"],"id":55527,"author_id":"Tobias+Wolff"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":67,"pages":7,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}