"Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam."
-- Marshall McLuhan, 1975
") if (now.getDate() == 2) document.write(""Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons."
-- General MacArthur
") if (now.getDate() == 3) document.write(""It's time that we recognized that ours was in truth a noble cause."
-- Ronald Reagan, October 1980
") if (now.getDate() == 4) document.write(""To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
-- George Washington 1790
") if (now.getDate() == 5) document.write(""Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most in America."
-- Myra MacPherson, 1984
") if (now.getDate() == 6) document.write(""War is hell, but actual combat is a motherfucker."
-- Colonel Dave Hackworth
") if (now.getDate() == 7) document.write(""American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another."
-- Lt. Col. Hal Moore
") if (now.getDate() == 8) document.write(""I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy."
-- General William C. Westmoreland
") if (now.getDate() == 9) document.write(""Any time you think you're smarter than your adversary, you're probably about a half-mile from the Little Big Horn."
-- Colonel Art Corbett, USMC
") if (now.getDate() == 10) document.write(""Gentlemen, we are being killed on the beaches. Let us go inland and be killed."
-- General Norman Cota, Omaha Beach, 6 June 1944
") if (now.getDate() == 11) document.write(""It is God's job to forgive Osama bin Laden. It is our job to arrange a face to face meeting."
-- General H. Norman Schwarzkopf
") if (now.getDate() == 12) document.write(""We did a fine job there. If it happened in World War II, they still would be telling stories about it. But it happened in Vietnam, so nobody knows about it. They don't even tell recruits about it today. Marines don't talk about Vietnam. We lost. They never talk about losing. So it's just wiped out, all of that's off the slate, it doesn't count. It makes you a little bitter."
-- John Muir, in Al Santoli, Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War, 1981
") if (now.getDate() == 13) document.write(""It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
-- General Douglas MacArthur
") if (now.getDate() == 14) document.write(""Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men."
-- General George Patton Jr
") if (now.getDate() == 15) document.write(""The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility."
-- British Sea Lord John Fisher
") if (now.getDate() == 16) document.write(""I can envision a small cottage somewhere, with a lot of writing paper, and a dog, and a fireplace and maybe enough money to give myself some Irish coffee now and then and entertain my two friends."
-- Richard Van de Geer, letter to friend before he was killed, May 15, 1975, officially last American to die in Vietnam War, Time, April 15, 1985
") if (now.getDate() == 17) document.write(""Lead me, follow me, or get out of my way."
-- General George Patton Jr
") if (now.getDate() == 18) document.write(""Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."
-- Ronald Reagan
") if (now.getDate() == 19) document.write(""Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."
-- Ernest Miller Hemmingway
") if (now.getDate() == 20) document.write(""A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living."
-- John F. Kennedy
") if (now.getDate() == 21) document.write(""When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him."
-- President Franklin D Roosevelt
") if (now.getDate() == 22) document.write(""The highest obligation and privilege of citizenship is that of bearing arms for one's country."
-- General George S Patton, Jr
") if (now.getDate() == 23) document.write(""The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks."
-- Samuel Adams
") if (now.getDate() == 24) document.write(""The Vietnam War was arguably the most traumatic experience for the United States in the twentieth century. That is indeed a grim distinction in a span that included two world wars, the assassinations of two presidents and the resignation of another, the Great Depression, the Cold War, racial unrest, and the drug and crime waves."
-- Donald M. Goldstein, intro, The Vietnam War
") if (now.getDate() == 25) document.write(""People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
-- George Orwell
") if (now.getDate() == 26) document.write(""It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived."
-- General George S. Patton, Jr
") if (now.getDate() == 27) document.write(""History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster."
-- Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf
") if (now.getDate() == 28) document.write(""Nuts."
-- General MacAuliffe (when asked to surrender during the Battle of the Bulge, 1944)
") if (now.getDate() == 29) document.write(""All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us . . . they can't get away this time."
-- Lieutenant General Lewis B.'Chesty' Puller (when surrounded by 8 enemy divisions)
") if (now.getDate() == 30) document.write(""It is the function of the Navy to carry the war to the enemy so that it will not be fought on U.S. soil."
-- Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet
") if (now.getDate() == 31) document.write(""It's not a great war, but it's the only one we've got."
-- Unidentified soldier in Vietnam
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