My dad was a fighter pilot with the 210th Combat Aviation in Vietnam.

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.

I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.

One of my uncles was actually a sapper who cleared land mines for Anzacs, Australian soldiers, and we had to flee Vietnam. There were 40 of us on a 9-meter fishing boat. We were at sea for five days, a very perilous journey. We were attacked by pirates twice.

I support engagement, diplomacy, and trade with Cuba, China, Vietnam, and many countries with less than stellar human rights records, because I believe that once enslaved people taste freedom and see the products of capitalism, they will become hungry for freedom themselves.

I returned to Vietnam in '94, and even then, all those decades later, walking around that place, I remained afraid. And, in some ways, rightly so.

I don't claim to know Israel. I don't speak Hebrew; my contacts are pretty limited. But I didn't know Vietnam; I didn't know Nicaragua, El Salvador or Honduras. It doesn't mean you can't reach your conclusions.

Normally, I try to get my haircut when I'm in a developing country. Last time, it was in Vietnam.

When I went to Vietnam in 1971 with Bob Hope, we went to Da Nang, which was a Marine base. I just have to say it was one of the biggest thrills I have ever had.

I served two tours of duty in Vietnam. I won the Bronze Star. I won the Purple Heart.

The brave men who died in Vietnam, more than 100% of which were black, were the ultimate sacrifice.

I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

We got to the moon on Christmas Eve 1968, at the end of a poor year for this country. We had Vietnam. We had civil unrest. We had the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. But we went around the moon and saw the far side for the first time. A script writer couldn't have done a better job of raising people's hope.

Military school was great and especially great for leadership and then I spent two years in Vietnam.

From its inception, South Vietnam was only considered to be an outpost in the war against communism.

Some useful advice for all of my Asian-American brothers and sisters - never go paint-balling with a Vietnam veteran.

The drummer in my first band was killed in Vietnam. He kind of signed up and joined the marines. Bart Hanes was his name. He was one of those guys that was jokin' all the time, always playin' the clown.

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.

We should bomb Vietnam back into the stone age.