Quotes
AMERICAN DEMONSTRATORS:
'The wrong war in the wrong place.'
'The longest and most unpopular war of the US.'
'The Vietnam War is one manifestation of the ancient tradition of the American aggression (...) the result will be a war against China or Russia.'
'Bring home our brothers!'
'What do we want? - Peace! - When do we want it? - Now!'A DISAPPOINTED STUDENT:
'Jerry Rubin (YIPPIE main speaker) came here last year and said: Let's tear up this system by the root. He came this year and said we had to enter our name to the list to be able to participate on the election of the president candidate.'VETERANS:
'We have to learn to enjoy the life. We have to start again.'
'My 2 brothers served in Vietnam. Today we all are disabled soldiers. I went there at the age of 17.'
'If I said that I had been a veteran in Vietnam, I was named me murder.'
'The biggest effect of Vietnam was that that we have lost our ability of sympathy.'
'In my point of view it didn't worth so much as much we lost.'
'We tried to do the same in cold blood what we asked our men to do hotheadedly.
'We feared so much one night that we fired away even at monkeys.'SOLDIERS:
'Anyone who had Chinese-like eyes, anyone who had yellow skin, they were the yellow, not a human being.'
'Actually, I just tried to stay alive and during this effort I became an animal, I lost my humanity.'
'I became indifferent to the death and the suffering.'
'Such fights like bombing Hanoi just strength the soul of the North Vietnamese, I reckon.'POWs (Prisoners of War)
'Hanoi Hilton was a prison with gigantic gates as if it was only built for this aim.' 'If they recognized the Americanism, they tortured.'
'Torturing is an extreme way of crude brutality with which one wants to get military information. The North Vietnamese just bound me, beat me a bit but that wasn't torturing at all.'
Mothers' day's message: 'American mothers have to face to the fact that their sons kill their mates and ruin foreign countries on a wrong aim's behalf. The participation in this war is shame and tragedy.'HO CHI MINH:
'There is nothing what would be so expensive like the independence and the freedom.'
'Fight till the last Yankee go home!' - 1969GENERAL DANG
'The most praiseful moment of our history.' - 1975NGO DINH DIEM:
'The border of the USA spreads till the 17th parallel.'NGUYEN CAO KY:
'The Laos operation failed on account of the planning because it was unnecessary.' (afterwards)
'Only we are responsible for the last collapse. The main officers started the escape everywhere and President Thieu appointed them.' (afterwards)NGUYEN VAN THIEU:
'We recognized that even if Johnson sends more troops to Vietnam, they do it only for achieving diplomatical solution, not for gaining a military victory.' - 1967-68
'To help the American people is the task of the Vietnamese people.' - 1969
'The Laos operation wasn't successful because we had to care about the injured and this slowed down the penetration.' - 1970
'The vietnamization was only pretext for the USA to leave the South Vietnamese people alone, this has been the so-called Fair Armistice.' - 1972
'The army, the third, the half of the country is overran, but not the whole.' - 1975 'They've left us, they've betrayed us, they've stabbed us at the back.' - 1975AMERICAN GENERALS, MINISTERS:
'Now, the raised celestial hammer that had been standing on the bound of the city swooped down.' - 1975
'The Phoenix program is not the program of the attempts.' - 1968
'In the beginning we couldn't judged the type of the war.' (afterwards) 'The war passed off for lack of proper planning.' (afterwards)
'Nobody thought that if Ho Chi Minh's party won, he'll appear with his troops.' (afterwards)
'I saw my men dying by camouflaged traps but I have never seen a Vietcong, I've never seen my enemy.'
'The place and not the people is the enemy.' 'Henceforth, our task is to prevent the spread of communism in Southeast Asia and the Southwest region of the Pacific Ocean.' - Dulles, an American diplomat
'It's impossible to win the war, its aim is the contrary of the global stability and the internal politics.'RICHARD M. NIXON:
'I always thought that this country (US) could get on with her home affairs without president as well.'
'The people of the USA wish all the best to Your country. We are waiting for the day when we will live in peace together.' - 1969
'We are not in Vietnam as aggressor, but to defend against aggressors. History will note the American participation as a good cause that was undertaken and finished with honor.' - 1972KISSINGER:
'The plan of the invasion in Laos was born in despair and confusion.' - 1970 (afterwards)SAMI DAVIS JUNIOR:
'The problem is that nobody wants to serve in the Army. Even the understanding of the words is not an easy task. There are conflicts even among themselves.'JANE FONDA:
'Make love, do not war!'THE VIETCONG:
'Don't be the last who die in Vietnam!'
'You can die here. Go home when it is not too late! Go away till you are alive!'