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 a...
Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes.
Each morning, despite the unknowns, they made their legs move.
But to a Vietnamese peasant whose home means a lifetime of back-breaking labor, it will take more than presidential promises to convince him that we are on his side.
Don't throw away luck on little stuff. Save it up.
Stories are for joining the past to the future.
What stories can do, I guess, is make things present.
Too young for Korea, too old for Vietnam.
Stories can save us.
And sometimes remembering will lead to a story, which makes it forever.
Stories are for eternity, when memory is erased, when there is nothing to remember except the story.
Being stubborn won't make you fluent. Practicing will! The more mistakes you make, the more you'll learn not to.
I’ve seen a lot of stuff… maybe I’ve seen too much. I see most humans in a bad light because I’ve seen what they can do, how evil they can be… I’ve seen the Holocaust and I’ve seen Jonestown, I’ve see...
We could see in our own country as late as the 1960's and 1970's how good Christian and Jewish men, the pillars of our society, when they acceded to political and military power, could sit calmly and...
In your dream you call for Chaplain Charlie. You met the Navy chaplain when you interviewed him for a feature article you were writing. Chaplain Charlie was an amateur magician. With his magic, Chapla...
The fear syndrome [a species of propaganda], by exaggerating Vietcong power for destruction, misplaces the real pain of the real war, and is immensely dangerous. It leads to hysteria, to hawk-demands...
Они несли собственные жизни. На них чудовищно давили погода и стресс. На послеполуденной жаре они снимали каски и бронежилеты, шли налегке, что было опасно, но помогало сбросить напряжение. Часто на м...
Senator Albert Gore Sr. was one of the first outspoken critics of the Vietnam War.
Dylan's voice was awful, an aged quaver that sounded nothing like the deep-throated or silky R&B that Dad took as gospel. But the lyrics wore him down, until he played Dylan in that addicted manner of...
There have been two popular subjects for poetry in the last few decades: the Vietnam War and AIDS, about both of which almost all of us have felt deeply.
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