Covered Vietnam War

Famous quotes containing the words covered, vietnam and/or war:

    “While the body’s life, deep as a covered well,
    Instinctive as the wind, busy as May,
    Burns out a secret passageway to hell.”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “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)

    “Your length in clay’s now competent,
    A long war disturbed your mind;”
    —John Webster (c. 1580–1638)