Hanoi Hannah quotes
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“Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die or to be maimed for life without the faintest idea of what's going on.”
-- Hanoi HannahSource : "The Mystery of Hanoi Hannah" by Don North, www.nytimes.com. February 8, 2018.
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“I put my heart in my work.”
-- Hanoi HannahSource : "The Life and Death of Hanoi Hannah" by Don North, consortiumnews.com. October 12, 2016.
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“Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.”
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“How are you, G.I. Joe? It seems to me that most of you are poorly informed about the going of the war, to say nothing about a correct explanation of your presence over here. Nothing is more confused than to be ordered into a war to die.”
-- Hanoi HannahSource : "The Life and Death of Hanoi Hannah" by Don North, donnorth.com. October 17, 2016.
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“Well, we think the broadcasts did have some effect, because we see the antiwar movement in the U.S. building up, growing and so we think that our broadcast is a support to this antiwar movement.”
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“We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.”
-- Hanoi HannahSource : "The Search for Hanoi Hannah" by Don North, www.psywarrior.com.
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“There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.”
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“Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.”
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“Our program for American GIs can be heard at 1630 hours.”
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“It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers.”
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“I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.”
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“Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.”
-- Hanoi HannahSource : "The Search for Hanoi Hannah". Interview with Don North, www.psywarrior.com.
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“And we broadcast tapes sent to us from Americans against the war. These were most effective I believe.”
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“Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.”
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“American GIs don't fight this unjust immoral and illegal war of Johnson's.”
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