Brandon Webb Quotes

You don't have to be in Nam to be in Nam.

Vietnam was my nightmare for a good ten years.

Both of my grandfathers served in World War II, both in the Pacific. One wouldn't talk about it, and one would.

I think there's a tremendous split between people who've been through a war and people who haven't.

I served two tours in Iraq, in the Marine Corps.

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.

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

I do not have to watch late-night television, watch a movie, to find out what combat is like.

When I read the script of 'The Wall,' I saw how much different the war looks from the point of view of a soldier fighting it.

I wanted to set the story straight and really let people know what it's like and what me and my Marines went through.

I don't have the experience of being in a war.

My own life changed when my father returned from his second combat tour in Vietnam. When he came home after almost a year in Army hospitals, he weighed less than half of what he did when he left. I watched the agonizing recovery, and that experience was on my mind when I was asked to come to VA.

My dad was in the Korean War. He got shot seven times. He had seven bullet holes in him. And out of his troop of 35 guys, he was one of nine guys that came back. And when he came back from that he had seven kids in seven years.

I had lots of friends who were fighting in Vietnam and I am still friends with veterans of the war.

Once I was in the Blink-182, going to Iraq was really touching. It was kind of emo for me, going and meeting soldiers who were, like, 19 and hadn't even met their kids... Or dealing with depression. Just being with those soldiers and traveling with them in helicopters and people with M-16s. It was an eye-opener.

'Catch-22''s first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.

I fought in Korea, front line. I knew who the enemy were. The enemy were the people who were firing at me. And shooting at me.

If you are a real soldier, you never get over the war.

Why of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece?

When I came back from Vietnam in 1965, I just had the greatest brainwashing anybody could get…

My stepfather was a military man: he was in the Air Force. Reserve. You thought he'd seen front-line action, but he was stationed in Cleveland.

My dad was in the Second World War with General Patton. He won medals for bravery, but he came home quite damaged, so he was a handful. He told us some terrible stories, and I guess you'd say he suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder.

My father was a builder. During my high school years, I worked for him. One summer, I was working with a guy who had just come back from Vietnam and had been a tunnel rat. He wouldn't talk about the experience, but it sounded really scary to me.

For more than a quarter of a century on active duty, my house has been my tent, and my home the battlefield.

When my father served in World War II, he wasn't told, 'Go to Europe for four months, for six months, and then you can come back, and there'll be plenty of big bases there for you to serve on, and don't worry about it.'