Best Quotes by Michael Herr (Top 5)

  1. How many times did someone have to run in front of a machine gun before it became an act of cowardice?
  2. All the wrong people remember Vietnam. I think all the people who remember it should forget it, and all the people who forgot it should remember it.
  3. Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.
  4. Maybe nothing's so unfunny as an omen read wrong.
  5. We never announced a scorched-earth policy; we never announced any policy at all, apart from finding and destroying the enemy, and we proceeded in the most obvious way. We used what was at hand, dropping the greatest volume of explosives in the history of warfare over all the terrain within the thirty-mile sector which fanned out from Khe Sanh. Employing saturation-bombing techniques, we delivered more than 110,000 tons of bombs to those hills during the eleven-week containment of Khe Sanh.