Antonia Fraser Quotes

You come back from war, and you have a certain authority to talk about war.

The Vietnam War totally turned my life around. Some people's lives were eliminated or destroyed by the experience. I was one of the fortunate few who came out better off.

The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn't know what war is except from television.

War was my university. Everything has proceeded from there.

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can.

Soldiers know what war is like. That's why so many of them turn out to be peacemakers.

Vietnam was my nightmare for a good ten years.

My grandparents were deeply affected by war, and it was obvious that the men who fought were horribly affected, as were the women who remained at home.

My parents are both war veterans; they met in Vietnam. They were involved in a war that they absolutely disagreed with.

I've been in Iraq, and it never occurred to me to go, 'Hey, this war is bogus,' to some guy who's 24 hours a day trying not to get shot at or blown up.

Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

It's easier to get people to talk to you if you're a vet and you want to interview a vet about war. Sometimes they open up a little bit easier.

When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up.

No one hates war like a soldier hates war.

I have spent the past ten years in just about every war zone there was.

Your generation and mine have had very little real experience; we've been severed from the direct experience of war by some very good things. By the end of the draft, and by the defeat in Vietnam.

I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.

No person can escape Einsteinian relativity, and no soldier or veteran can escape the trauma of war's dislocation.

When I first came back from Iraq, I of course found myself thinking a lot about it. Not just my experiences, but those of people I talked to, friends, and colleagues.

I never got away from the war. Not because I was obsessed with it in those years, but because it was the event of my generation and I started out covering it so I stayed with it.

I didn't know a time when there wasn't a war because I spent all my time from the age of two or three to eight in a coal cellar really.

I don't think I'd call myself a war writer, but I would probably say I'm a writer who has written about war.

I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

I was in the Navy and saw, first-hand, the effects of front-line combat.

Obviously all of us have thought about Vietnam, particularly in my generation in Australia that were part of conscription and fought there. Our friends came back, forever changed. So there were a lot of questions.