"All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it."
— Michael Herr (1989)

Kilroy was there, too

"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." — Aldous Huxley "The spirit of liberty ... is the spirit which is not too sure it is always right." — Learned Hand "To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often." — John Henry Newman "You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself." — Galileo "Our lives are shaped not as much by our experience, as by our expectations." — George Bernard Shaw

"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now."
— Richard M. Nixon (1985)

"Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America."
— Myra MacPherson (1984)

"Let us understand: North Vietnam cannot defeat or humiliate the United States. Only Americans can do that."
— Richard M. Nixon (1969)