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Quotes of the Day for 29 April 2005 - Vietnam

The last flight of Operation Frequent Wind took off from the roof of the American embassy at Saigon on this day in 1975. That airlift involved 682 helicopter flights carrying 5,000 Americans and sympathetic Vietnamese, about half of them from the embassy compound. Even though the war had officially ended two years before, this was the day that it all ended.

I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money.
     - Charles De Gaulle, 1899 - 1970, on Vietnam War

The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles.... What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.
     - Henry Alfred Kissinger

No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now. Rarely have so many people been so wrong about so much. Never have the consequences of their misunderstanding been so tragic.
     - Richard M. Nixon, 1913 - 1994

The war in Vietnam threatened to tear our society apart, and the political and philosophical disagreements that separated each side continue, to some extent. It's been said that these memorials reflect a hunger for healing.
     - Ronald Wilson Reagan, 1911 - 2004

The biggest lesson I learned from Vietnam is not to trust [our own] government statements. I had no idea until then that you could not rely on [them].
     - Senator James William Fulbright

Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America - not on the battlefields of Vietnam.
     - Marshall McLuhan, 1911 - 1980

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