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The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was.

Maya Lin

When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.

We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.

Curtis Lemay

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From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.

After Watergate, America was a ship without a rudder. Vietnam was left to its own devices, drifting along towards its fate.

By the mid-sixties, the United States had poured more than half a million troops into South Vietnam.

During the Fifties, political and military activities in Vietnam were heavily influenced by the French, who as recent colonial masters, made all-important decisions.

After the 1954 Geneva international conference, Vietnam was divided into two parts. On paper, North and South Vietnam were twin countries born at the same moment.

Nguyen Cao Ky

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If the war has faded into history, democracy's defeat in Vietnam has left deep marks in the consciousness of both nations.

South Vietnam had to be built from scratch and, from the very beginning, depended far too much on the Western superpowers. As in the case of a person on public welfare, this dependency, which became greater with each day, was quite difficult to shake.

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.

East Asia has prospered since the end of the Vietnam War, and Northeast Asia has prospered since the end of the Korean War in a way that seems unimaginable when you think of the history of the first half of the century.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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