“Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that.”—President Richard NixonAs the 1960s drew to a close, 1969 became a pivotal year that marked the end of an era—a time when the dr...

“You send the best of this country off to be shot and maimed. They rebel in the streets. They will take pot, and they will get high. They don't want to go to school, 'cause they're going to be snatched off from their mothers to be shot in Vietn...

“You could never tell who was the enemy and who was not. Therefore you treated everybody with suspicion and distrust. The enemy was everywhere and everybody at all times, and we were the foreigners in their country…" - Thomas Giltner, U.S. Sold...

“It’s silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home for Christmas.” —Ronald ReaganIn 1961, the Vietnam War was a co...

“We are not about to send American boys nine or ten thousand miles away from home to do what Asian boys ought to be doing for themselves.” —President Lyndon JohnsonBetween 1960 and 1964, the conflict in Vietnam escalated from a ...