Covered Vietnam War

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

    “No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now.”
    —Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)

    “My safe, safe psychosis is broken.
    It was hard.
    It was made of stone.
    It covered my face like a mask.
    But it has cracked.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “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)

    “A war between Europeans is a civil war.”
    —Victor Hugo (1802–1885)