Base South Vietnam

Famous quotes containing the words base, south and/or vietnam:

    “Report of fashions in proud Italy,
    Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation
    Limps after in base imitation.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “In the far South the sun of autumn is passing
    Like Walt Whitman walking along a ruddy shore.
    He is singing and chanting the things that are part of him,
    The worlds that were and will be, death and day.
    Nothing is final, he chants. No man shall see the end.
    His beard is of fire and his staff is a leaping flame.”
    —Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    “Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America.”
    —Myra MacPherson, U.S. author. Long Time Passing: Vietnam and the Haunted Generation, epilogue (1984)