Hanoi Hannah Quotes

In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.

I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

We're living through a time where we are fighting wars fostered by politics, admittedly not on the same scale as the First World War, but with equally tragic realities for our soldiers and their families.

We have as a nation been duped by those who use our guilt about how we treated the innocent pawns in the Vietnam War game - the soldiers - into missing the point once again about the utter senselessness that is war.

I've become very, very liberal as far as war is concerned. It's just too terrible. I've been to wars and I've seen what happens. I know what it is to be hurt, and it's nothing compared to these guys. To be blind for the rest of your life. To have prosthetic limbs.

You've gotten words about those American and Iraqi deaths and mutilations, but precious few images.

I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.

War means blind obedience, unthinking stupidity, brutish callousness, wanton destruction, and irresponsible murder.

So much destruction in modern war takes place miles and miles away from the source of the destruction, the human being who has caused it.

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

American boys should not be seen dying on the nightly news. Wars should be over in three days or less, or before Congress invokes the War Powers Resolution.

I don't think any war is worth having our soldiers killed.

The ground was strewn with the dead, the dying, and the wounded—here lay one man with his leg shot off, there another with a wound in his head, another with an arm shot off, and hundreds wounded in nearly all the various parts of the body.

We talk about war in America, we talk about it on an intellectual level. We don’t talk about the sound or smells of war…the pain

These same people that tolerate the real violence of war don't want to see the result of it on the nightly news. Unlike the rest of the world, our news coverage of this war remains sanitized, without a glimpse of the blood and gore inflicted upon our soldiers or the women and children in Iraq. Violence as a concept, an abstraction – it's very strange

The immediate reaction of the poets who fought in the war was cynicism... The war dramatized for them the contrast between the still-idealistic young, living and dying on the unalteringly horrible stage-set of the Western front, with the complacency of the old at home, the staff officers behind the lines. In England there was violent anti-German feeling; but for the poet-soldiers the men in the trenches on both sides seemed united in pacific feelings and hatred of those at home who had sent them out to kill each other.

… war by its nature entails terrible injustice to many individuals and that acceptance of that injustice as the lesser evil is implicit in any decision to send the military into combat.

After a big war a nation doesn't want another for a generation or more.

Going to war is a rare experience in American culture, so it's easy for simple notions to gain a lot of weight. The reality is always more complex.

I don't think so, but it's always in the back of my mind that many of the soldiers being wounded and killed in Iraq are about the same age as my kids. My godson is going over soon, so the war's about to get personal for me.

Life was so cheap in Vietnam. That is where my sense of urgency comes from.

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

World War II was just as dirty and brutal as Vietnam, just as confusing.

I played in bombed-out houses and grew up with the ever-present consequences of a lost war and the awareness that my own country had inflicted terrible pain on many nations during the horrific World War II.

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.