Gary D. quotes

No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.
-- Gary D.

#Vietnam

A heart that has lost knows every other heart that has lost. Late and soon, loss is all the same.
-- Gary D.

#Heart #Loss #Lost

We carry our childhood with us.
-- Gary D.

#Childhood #Our Children

At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone - except Caliban - is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. Happy endings. That's how it is in Shakespeare. But Shakespeare was wrong. Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again. And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.
-- Gary D.

#Son #Sea #Quality

In point of fact all Americans are automatically turned down by China these days because of the escalation of Johnson's war in Vietnam, which several times has intruded into China.

Was the Vietnam conflict a war which should have, as a matter of constitutional law, required a declaration of war by Congress?

I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there to steal Vietnam.

Had there been a reporter along with Lieutenant Calley when he massacred those people in Vietnam, I think that probably wouldn't have happened.

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

One of the good things about the way the Gulf War ended in 1991 is, you'd see the Vietnam veterans marching with the Gulf War veterans.

One of the sharp parallels is that neither Vietnam nor Iraq was the slightest threat to America's national security.

I thought the Vietnam war was an utter, unmitigated disaster, so it was very hard for me to say anything good about it.

Let us put an end to self-inflicted wounds. Let us remember that our national unity is a most priceless asset. Let us deny our adversaries the satisfaction of using Vietnam to pit Americans against Americans.

I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.