“I enlisted when I was a boy. The Navy looked after me like my mother. It fed me, took care of me and gave me wonderful opportunities.”
Gary Cooper

“I was a grunt, walking around in the jungle of Vietnam, trying not to find the enemy.”
Bob Gunton

“Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.”
Sam Elliott

“- Major Otto Baumeister: You will find that in your position impertinence does not pay.
- Flying Officer Johnny Hammond: I didn't join up in this war to make money.”
Raymond Massey - Major Otto Baumeister
Ronald Reagan - Flying Officer Johnny Hammond

“I think you underestimate us, Major Kirby. Perhaps all a woman wants is to be a photograph a soldier tacks above his bunk or a stupid lock of hair in the back of his watch.”

Ginger Rogers - Susan Applegate