The war against terrorism is a war against those who engage in torture.
Ed Markey
When the peace treaty is signed, the war isn't over for the veterans, or the family. It's just starting.
Karl Marlantes
'Matterhorn' is my metaphor of the Vietnam War - we built it, we abandoned it, we assaulted it, we lost, and then we abandoned it again.
War is society's dirty work, usually done by kids cleaning up failures perpetrated by adults.
For every veteran who goes through a divorce, a wife goes through one, too. For every veteran alone in the basement, there is a wife upstairs... →
When I first got back from the war, I said, 'I'm gonna write the Great American Novel about the Vietnam War.' So I sat down and wrote... →
Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading... →
Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in... →
Accurst be he that first invented war.
Christopher Marlowe
Accursed be he that first invented war.