These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.

I'm glad that Billy and all Vietnam veterans, for that matter, are finally getting this kind of recognition. It's as if they're finally getting their due.

Everybody respects the Vietnam Veterans of America.

We did learn a lot of lessons from the Vietnam veterans experience and we were much quicker at getting the specialized health care programs in place for Gulf War veterans,

World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

I learned a lot from Vietnam veterans, especially as some of them turned against their own war.